The New Code
summary
Claim: specifications, not prompts or code, become the fundamental unit of programming. Evidence: OpenAI publishes a living Model Spec as versioned markdown with clause IDs and an attached 40-case challenge suite that surfaces "sophency" failures. Method: use deliberative alignment — sample model outputs, have a stronger model score them against spec clauses, and reinforce weights. Outcome: spec serves as a human trust anchor, drives automated evals and model updates, and prompts rollbacks and fixes when behavior violates the spec.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Code versus communication
- 9:32What is a specification
- 11:42Case study: sycophancy
- 14:12Making specs executable
- 17:01Lawmakers as programmers
- 19:08Engineering is not about code
- 20:12Call to action
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