Software Requirements Challenges

the people you're supposed to be eliciting requirements from are just regurgitating what ChatGPT told them are the requirements hehehe

The age-old bane of software requirements: "It's exactly what we asked for but not what we want."

Seems like it was written by a requirements engineer.

These are requirements. There is a looong way from requirements to final product.

It seems like it is yet another example of software not written to requirements so now the requirements are adjusted to fit the software implementation.

Writing code is the easy part. Requirements are the hard part.

If the requirements are unclear, then why are you writing code? Why aren't you having conversations with people to clear up those requirements?

People find it a lot more palatable when the AI requires all this information than when software engineers do though. If I ask for clear requirements I’m asked to just figure it out. But if the AI implements nonsense without clear requirements that the fault of the specs.

Thanks for the information. I can understand misinterpreting the requirements - after all, the requirements themselves are a form of programming, and getting the requirements clear and bug free is a major endeavor.

How come they get to talk to the customer that way and not me lolthese are literally questions I've given to project managers to help create better requirements but ultimately as a dev you have to come up with "something" regardless and redo the work once the customer complains. Stupid GPTs cutting the line!