A Literate Programming Environment for Human and Machine Agents

arXiv:2608.24644 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.PL · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.PL

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/adamburkegh/notlob

Terminology

• Adam — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Behaviour Driven Development — 4× in this paper
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Commentary — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Digital Signals Processing — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Paper Review — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Specification Driven Development — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Spec-Driven Development:From Code to Contract in the Age of AI Coding Assistants
• Renaissance of Literate Programming in the Era of LLMs: Enhancing LLM-Based Code Generation in Large-Scale Projects

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