Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
The process of writing and maintaining a file in a human language (for example, English) that describes software. You can then tell a generative AI model or another software engineer to create the software that fulfills that description.
Automatically-generated code generally requires iteration. In specificational coding, you iterate on the description file. By contrast, in conversational coding, you iterate within the prompt box. In practice, automatic code generation sometimes involves a combination of both specificational coding and conversational coding.
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A research engineer uses specificational coding to describe the expected behavior of a model before implementing it.
An ML platform team adopts specificational coding in its review process so reviewers see intent alongside implementation.
A research lab uses specificational coding to document model components for downstream verification.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License