cognitive psychology. PhD 
Honestly I think rather than expecting programmers to write specs, the frame is totally wrong. From my view, the IDE should be *asking questions* to the programmer, from which it can converge with the programmer on a spec
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This is so not my area, and I know nothing about any of this, but just looking at our entire field it seems to me that the important direction overall is bringing in more human understanding into it in various ways. And this seemed, to my untutored mind, a prime possibility.
I think we can learn a lot from cognitive limitations! Humans are good at perceiving things and bad at remembering them, which has deep implications for design of languages, IDEs, and other tools. Eg a recent paper of mine:https://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1351644389475553288 …
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Also, about asking questions to the programmer. There's some cool work on disambiguation in natural language programming assistant's, eg Pumice from CMU:pic.twitter.com/Ope1qd4Od2
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