I read such articles more or less every day.
This article would be 100% correct if it came out 1 year ago, 75% correct 9 months ago, 50% correct 3 months ago and it's probably 25% correct now if not less.
I totally understand where this is coming from. I too am struggling with accepting that my 30+ years of programming experience is quickly becoming obsolete. I'm losing sleep about this, it's tough.
But just go ahead and give the latest models (Opus 5.5 / Astra 6 as of today) another try.
See what they are capable of and read the code which they produce.
Any problem area, low level C++ or high level Typescript or Clojure or a weird combination of these..
Don't be shy, give them a big task, let them build an entire app, UI and all..
Now compare the output to Opus 4 or gpt-5 from 1 year ago - when they couldn't put together a single function without it being weird and buggy.
This is exactly my problem, not that the models are very good already, but how fast they got so good.
So if coding is not solved yet, it'll get there very soon.
By that logic, the software by the top AI-token maxxer(Microsoft, meta, Twitter) will be much, much better than ever.
Is Windows much better than they were 2 years ago, why didn't MS just point Astra/Fable(or whatever SOTA, non-public model they have access to) to Windows kernel and ask it "make it 10x faster" ? Are they stupid ?
This is like when two years ago people said "oh yeah if these things are accelerating software development then where's all the new software??!!"
The answer then was "it still takes time, man".
That's the answer now, too!
It took time for them to accelerate the quantity of software, which is the thing these are most naturally good at, and it will take even more time for them to improve the quality of software, which has proven to be less of a superpower for LLMs than quantity is.
MS obviously setting up CI/CD on their product, that means whatever the AI was outputting, should have reached user hand by now. Yet we see no improvement in quality
temp00345 · · focus · HN ↗
I totally understand where this is coming from. I too am struggling with accepting that my 30+ years of programming experience is quickly becoming obsolete. I'm losing sleep about this, it's tough.
But just go ahead and give the latest models (Opus 5.5 / Astra 6 as of today) another try. See what they are capable of and read the code which they produce. Any problem area, low level C++ or high level Typescript or Clojure or a weird combination of these..
Don't be shy, give them a big task, let them build an entire app, UI and all..
Now compare the output to Opus 4 or gpt-5 from 1 year ago - when they couldn't put together a single function without it being weird and buggy.
This is exactly my problem, not that the models are very good already, but how fast they got so good. So if coding is not solved yet, it'll get there very soon.
mrheosuper · · focus · HN ↗
Is Windows much better than they were 2 years ago, why didn't MS just point Astra/Fable(or whatever SOTA, non-public model they have access to) to Windows kernel and ask it "make it 10x faster" ? Are they stupid ?
furyofantares · · focus · HN ↗
The answer then was "it still takes time, man".
That's the answer now, too!
It took time for them to accelerate the quantity of software, which is the thing these are most naturally good at, and it will take even more time for them to improve the quality of software, which has proven to be less of a superpower for LLMs than quantity is.
mrheosuper · · focus · HN ↗
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