Evidence

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"Source code is a human-readable representation of program instructions that compilers can transform into executable machine code."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title What is a compiler?

Source authors Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley

Source year 2025

Confidence mid

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Ambiguous natural-language requirements can reduce the correctness of LLM-generated code and produce divergent implementations."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Clarity Is Not Assumed: Understanding LLM-Based Code Generation under Ambiguous Requirements

Source authors Di Yang, Xinou Xie, Xiuwen Yang, Ming Hu, Yihao Huang, Yueling Zhang, Weikai Miao, Ting Su, Chengcheng Wan, Geguang Pu

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"At high levels of required precision, expressing formal requirements in natural language can become more costly than expressing them directly in a formal language."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Position: Natural Language Should Not Fully Replace Formal Languages

Source authors Eitan Wagner, Elisha Rosensweig, Omri Abend

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Writing a complete natural-language software specification is difficult because requirements can contain ambiguity, vagueness, and incompleteness."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements

Source authors Alvaro Veizaga, Mauricio Alferez, Damiano Torre, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel Briand

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Oliver Schoenborn challenged specification-driven development by arguing that complete prose specifications can be harder to write than code because symbolic notation expresses precise relationships efficiently."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Comments - How to Kill the Code Review

Source authors Oliver Schoenborn

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

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"Adversarial verification has been proposed as a potential alternative component of human code-review workflows."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title How to Kill the Code Review

Source authors Ankit Jain

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Some proponents of AI-assisted development argue that human review should move from generated code to specifications, constraints, acceptance criteria, and verification rules."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title How to Kill the Code Review

Source authors Ankit Jain

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Technical decisions and dependencies within source code can create coordination requirements between developers and teams."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Socio-Technical Congruence: A Framework for Assessing the Impact of Technical and Work Dependencies on Software Development Productivity

Source authors Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb, Kathleen M. Carley

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Code is a coordination layer through which makers organize joint work and manage dependencies between the people producing software."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Socio-Technical Congruence: A Framework for Assessing the Impact of Technical and Work Dependencies on Software Development Productivity

Source authors Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb, Kathleen M. Carley

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Tomás López coordinated geographically dispersed contributors through questionnaires, correspondence, and sketches supplied by local clergy."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Code as a Coordination Layer

Source title Cartografía del espacio vivido: los croquis del Catastro de Ensenada y del Diccionario Geográfico de Tomás López desde el enfoque de la Geografía de la Percepción

Source authors María José Ortega Chinchilla

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance mid