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“I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program…” (geohot.github.io)
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. 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. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

Right? The bottle has opened. It has taken so much mundane work out of programming. Also, I feel like a human is just as likely to create great looking code changes with a possible flaw. You just have to review the code. Whether it's a person or a bot, "lgtm" can only be used sparingly.

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