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" Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming"

In other words - they can program, and probably better than you.

I don't like being too critical but this is a really superficial post - as if either 'AI is a Software Engineer - or - It must be Fraud'

It's an extremely powerful tool that is very 'pattern oriented' and with guidance can absolutely write great code - and even across modules given the right basis.

It's also great at so many other tasks - finding bugs in big code bases, doing migrations etc.

It's not going to make very goo architectural decisions for you, and if you're doing anything novel you have to read most of the code ... but that's too be expected.



It’s not like the author is a noob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

In fact, he’s done several things that are truly hard, and has a well-deserved engineering reputation.


Well he doesn't write CRUD apps, which plenty of us do, and with a decent harness, agents can do decent enough work on them.


The author is absurdly wrong.

It's ridiculous to suggest that 'AI can't code' - when the entire development world has moved into agentic coding, including all of the best developers in the world, and it's yielding positive results in most scenarios.

It's a callow 'bad twitter take' the length of an article.

He's not wrong to suggest that IA is a 'stochastic mechanism' over all the code that's ever been written, but that's evidence of the mechanism, and frankly, describe how it is able to code.

And yes - organizations will misappropriate AI at scale as they do with everything.

His premise is so far out of proportion and misguided, it's tantamount to 'fake moon landing' conspiracy theory.


> when the entire development world has moved into agentic coding

Careful, your bubble is showing.


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