alt Hacker News> Software engineering was supposed to be artificial intelligence’s easiest win.
At what point in time? Did anyone foresee coding being one of the best and soonest applications of this stuff?
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throwaway314155 • today at 1:35 AM
No one saw it coming.
antonvs • today at 12:18 AM
They're probably talking about some point after the capabilities of LLMs started to become clear.
It's why Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI etc. were developed at all - it was clear that if you wanted a concrete application of LLMs with clear productivity benefits, coding was low-hanging fruit, so all the AI vendors jumped on that and started hyping it.
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Copyrightest • today at 1:06 AM
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I seem to recall short snippets of IDE code completion being one of the first commercial applications of it.