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At the centre AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard. Holds TSTim Sweeney Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording The AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI. Holds NENeetCode
• Similar wording There is a world where AI coding tools change nothing except that engineers are happier, and for a lot of companies that is not good enough to keep paying for. Holds DRDax Raad
• Similar wording AI has moved the programmer's bottleneck from writing code to having good design ideas, and there is no verification loop for a design idea. Holds MNMichael Nielsen
• Similar wording AI will do to software what the cloud did: expand the market massively rather than crush the margins of the incumbent. Holds SNSatya Nadella
• Similar wording AI coding works when a person owns the architecture and scopes the agent to small pieces of it, and fails when the whole thing is handed over. Holds TFTony Fadell
• Similar wording AI has already made sweeping mechanical changes cheap; the unsolved problem is getting the same productivity when adding features to an old, entangled codebase. Holds TPThuan Pham
• Similar wording Letting more people write software in natural language does not reduce the work; it snowballs the amount of software that has to be maintained. Holds THThePrimeagen