Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before.

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• 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. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026similar wording
• A model can make an existing algorithm a hundred times faster and still cannot invent a better one, however long you give it. NBNoam Brown26 Jun 2026similar wording
• AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025similar wording
• The code today’s models and agents write is very hard to follow: you get better performance without knowing why, and no way to fix it when it breaks. ESElizabeth Stone19 Jul 2026similar wording
• Predicting that AI would write 90% of the code was never a prediction that we would need 90% fewer software engineers. DADario Amodei13 Feb 2026similar wording

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