What percentage of companies can hire an engineer who writes better code than o3?

vunderba 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

Given that o3 just spun its wheels endlessly trying to correct a CSS issue by suggesting to create a "tailwind.config.X" file despite being given the package JSON which contained a clear reference to Tailwind 4x - I'd say any engineer capable of reading and learning from basic documentation.

For reference, Tailwind 4 will not read in config files by default (which is the older behavior) - the encouraged practice is to configure customizations directly in the CSS file where you import Tailwind itself.

	▲	herbst 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Tell the AI to comment above the include why it uses a specific version, ask it to document the version and it's specific quirks after fixing it with it. Not sure how o3 is generally at coding, but this kind of meta information works well for me to avoid version missmatches with Claude and Gemini It's kinda important that the AI finds the issues itself so it can properly document it in her own words.
	▲	pyfon 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Is breaking API changes how we defeat the killer robots?

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bigstrat2003 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is most definitely 100%. Any competent programmer can write code better than the current AI tools.

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kbelder 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm a big booster of AI, but this doesn't even make sense. Any project using even the very best code generator in existence is going to need to be stewarded and tightly monitored by a competent programmer. AI is miraculous, but can't do crap reliably on it's own.

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Applejinx 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Whatever percentage that can hire an engineer at all.

This won't be 100%, but that'll be the companies who're able to hire somebody to parse the problems that arise. Without that engineer, they'll be doing what OP calls 'vibe coding', meaning they'll neither understand nor be able to fix when the whole thing blows up.

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DaSHacka 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

100%

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neural_thing 8 months ago | parent [-]

highly doubt that

	▲	biglyburrito 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Then why ask the question, if you're so sure of the answer?

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only-one1701 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

This question isn’t useful without context. But yes the answer is probably 100%.