alt Hacker NewsThe fact that these "bullshit machines" have already proven themselves relatively competent at programming, with upcoming frontier models coming close to eliminating it as a human activity, probably says a lot about the actual value and importance of programming in the scheme of things.
I think it says more about the amount of automation we left on the table in the last few decades. So much of the code LLM's can generate are stuff that we should have completely abstracted away by now.