"Coding is solved" will eternally remain 6 mo away, as long as the investors keep pumping in money.

Art9681 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a Principal with 26YOE. It's solved today. Not tomorrow. The industry isn't changing. It already happened. It happened so fast a lot of people not paying attention blinked and missed it. The sudden realization gave way to fear. And many a blog was written lamenting the loss of a bygone era.

It's highly entertaining I think.

	▲	globular-toast 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When I see comments like this with some large number of years claimed I just assume they're jaded after so many years and don't care about programming any more. It just sounds like you're ready to become a manager like so many engineers have always done.

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xnorswap 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And as long as we keep changing the meaning of coding!

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vincent-uden 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its the fusion power of programming

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ben_w 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ironic, given I've used an agent to help me simulate a fusion reactor.

Just a simple reactor, my laptop's only little. But still.

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thway15269037 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Clearly they should point an LLM to fusion as a problem and 88,000,000 agent*hours later they surely will have a solution! Or say that akhtually it's a harness problem.

	▲	lolakutty 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Skill issue duh..

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rfgplk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Frankly, I don't really see how it isn't solved, even with the current state of LLMs. Frontier models can write, understand, correct, and optimize code in practically any language at a superhuman level. I haven't come across a single problem that LLMs can't solve. You can easily give them a research paper, ask them to implement it and in an hour or two it's done. Or even point them to a video or screenshot of something and say "implement this feature in our game engine" and... they just do it. It might not be optimally perfect, but what % of human written code is? Even if you ignore the time amortization (given how models can spit out weeks of human work in an hour) they still obliterate even an experienced developer.

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bigstrat2003 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Frankly, I don't really see how it isn't solved, even with the current state of LLMs. Frontier models can write, understand, correct, and optimize code in practically any language at a superhuman level.

It isn't solved because they cannot, in fact, do what you claim. LLMs write code worse than humans do, even "frontier" models.

	▲	zamalek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yup. Something the article points out is that they write code better than a few, some, or many humans do - with that list below the six fingers, and how that correlates to whether one is part of the "coding is dead" crowd.