alt Hacker NewsFor me it's simple:
1. Assume you're to work on product/feature X.
2. If God were to descend and give you a very good, reality-tested spec:
3. Would you be done faster? Of course, because as every AI doomer says, writing code was never the bottleneck!!1!
4. So the only bottleneck is getting to the spec.
5. Guess what AI can help you with as well, because you can iterate out multiple versions with little mental effort and no emotional sunk cost investment?
ergo coding is a solved problem
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sarchertech • today at 6:12 PM
And then it turns out God wrote the spec in code because that’s what any spec sufficient to produce the same program from 2 different teams/LLMs would be.
slopinthebag • today at 6:08 PM
4 doesn't follow from 3
Man, if this were true we’d see a crazy, massive explosion of quality products being written, and launched. While we see some use, i don’t perceive an acceleration. In fact, i see a lot of trivial bugs being deployed to prod.