alt Hacker NewsI am used to seeing technical papers from ieee, but this is an opinion piece? I mean, there is some anecdata and one test case presented to a few different models but nothing more.
I am not necessarily saying the conclusions are wrong, just that they are not really substantiated in any way
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This is the Spectrum magazine; the lighter fare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Spectrum
Yeah I saw the ieee.org domain and was expecting a much more rigorous post.
And the example given was specific to OpenAI models, yet the title is a blanket statement.
I agree with the author that GPT-5 models are much more fixated on solving exactly the problem given and not as good at taking a step back and thinking about the big picture. The author also needs to take a step back and realize other providers still do this just fine.
and they are using OpenAI models, who haven't had a successful training run since Ilya left, GPT 5x is built on GPT 4x, not from scratch aiui
I'm having a blast with gemini-3-flash and a custom copilor replacement extension, it's much more capable than Copilot ever was with any model for me and a personalized dx with deep insights into my usage and what the agentic system is doing under the hood.
To be fair, it's very rare that articles praising the power of AI coding assistants are ever substantiated, either.
In the end, everyone is kind of just sharing their own experiences. You'll only know whether they work for you by trying it yourself.