Gokul Rajaram Builds ProductSpec Open Standard For AI Agent Intent Alignment
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“Expressing intent will be the most important skill in the world.” Well said. If you can’t express intent clearly and precisely, you are setting up your agent for failure. Correcting the misalignment between intent and execution is why I am building ProductSpec. ProductSpec is the open standard ability to align intent with agentic execution.
i'm slowly realizing that the code i'm writing is no longer code traditionally when we build software, we write code. code tells the machines "here's what you do" if we write wrong code, machines will do wrong things. and that's what we call a bug earlier this month, i wrote a pretty bad bug into one of firstmate's bash scripts. the code literally can't run, and should have broken firstmate except it didn't. it went unnoticed for days. i discovered it when i came across the code and spent minutes wondering how on earth this could work i then found that the agent ran the script, saw it fail, figured out what the script was trying to do, and did a workaround to achieve the same goal so a bug that should have crashed the whole software almost didn't have any visible impact that's when i discovered that what i wrote in the bash script is no longer code. it's not "here's what you do" it's intent. it's "here's what i want" intent doesn't crash and can't be broken. it gets executed regardless whether it's "correct" or not. i can no longer write "bugs" what can still happen in intent is what i call "misses", which could be - 1. a misalignment between what's written and what my real intent is - this happens when i fail at articulating my thoughts 2. a misalignment between my real intent and the real demand - this happens when i fail at understanding the world those are becoming the most important human skills in this new era