People claimed GPT-3 was great at coding when it launched. Those who said otherwise were dismissed. That has continued to be the case in every generation.

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esafak 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you saying the current models are not good at coding? That is a strong claim.

	▲	Arainach 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For brand new projects? Perhaps. For working with existing projects in large code bases? Still not living up to the hype. Still sick of explaining to leadership that they're not magic and "agentic" isn't magic either. Still sick of everyone not realizing that if you made coding 300% faster (which AI hasn't) that doesn't help when coding is less than half the hours of my week. Still sick of the "productivity gains" being subsidized by burning out competent code reviewers calling bullshit on things that don't work or will cause problems down the road.

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dwaltrip 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A bit reductive.

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stale2002 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> People claimed GPT-3 was great at coding when it launched.

Ok and they were wrong, but now people are right that it is great at coding.

> That has continued to be the case in every generation.

If something gets better over time, it is definitionally true that it was bad for every case in the past until it becomes good. But then it is good.

Thats how that works. For everything. You are talking in tautologies while not understanding the implication of your arguments and how it applies to very general things like "A thing that improves over time".