alt Hacker NewsThere is a plausible scenario in which software engineering requires a very finite amount of intelligence, in which sota models will be used mainly for other things and where for coding the harness will become increasingly more important than the model.
i've kinda had this thought before but never could express it ("you only need up to a certain level of smartness to express most coding concepts correctly")
but it never occurred to me that, if true, of course the harness becomes increasingly more important. which feels absolutely correct of course.
not sure if the hypothesis is even true though.