I appreciate the feedback, but the spec is intentionally over-broad rather than over-narrow. I and several other engineers in AI safety have made serious efforts to try and pin down exactly what ‘great software engineering’ is, and—for want of a better phrase—have found ourselves missing the forest for the trees. What we’re after is a certain level of tacit, hard-to-specify skills and knowledge that we felt was best characterised by the litmus test given above.
I appreciate the feedback, but the spec is intentionally over-broad rather than over-narrow. I and several other engineers in AI safety have made serious efforts to try and pin down exactly what ‘great software engineering’ is, and—for want of a better phrase—have found ourselves missing the forest for the trees. What we’re after is a certain level of tacit, hard-to-specify skills and knowledge that we felt was best characterised by the litmus test given above.