Ion Stoica at Stanford: humans specify and verify, models design and generate
RajaXg · x · 2026-10-17
At a Stanford forum, Ion Stoica offered a crisp framing of the human-AI division of labor: specification and verification is to humans what design, code generation and execution is to models. In his words: biology will verify, silicon will design.
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