There’s a spectrum of problems one can apply FMs to. Galois is probably selecting for the harder end of projects that do require PhDs with scary sounding degrees.
In industry there are a lot of problems that don’t require that level of skill which can benefit a lot from application of FM’s.
To support your position, I still think the best ROI is interface specs with test generation and code level proofs. Also, detection of common problems like a type changing or no increment in a while. That would've caught many problems I've had in the last, few months.
The biggest problem I see with that is how to specify those specs, especially contracts. I'd like to see a free collection of specs for common properties. Examples include ranges, ordering, not a value, invariants, and confidentiality. If searchable, then that might already be enough for many situations.
From there, we can develop tools to generate them for people. The tools might parse the code, ask some questions, and generate the specs. Alternatively, LLM's trained on such things might generate specs. They might review them and suggest things. Over time, we'll also have more components that are already spec'd which specialists might build on.
We just really need ways for developers to go from their situation to specs with no work or little work. If it's as easy as code and comments, we'll see more adoption.
There’s a spectrum of problems one can apply FMs to. Galois is probably selecting for the harder end of projects that do require PhDs with scary sounding degrees.
In industry there are a lot of problems that don’t require that level of skill which can benefit a lot from application of FM’s.