alt Hacker NewsExactly. I've been trying to say this. Some people think that because people can write CRUD APIs and end-user apps with AI, no-one will need to write code anymore.
There is so much to be built in terms of tooling and libraries where we need tight, solid, well-crafted, original, unique code.
They have a real weakness when it comes to designing something that doesn't have a design precedent. There are no good java language servers, so it can't design a good java language server.
You can also show this with by e.g. asking an LLM to design an internet search engine in Java, for which there doesn't exist very many examples, and my own Marginalia Search and my devlog is one of few design examples it has to reach for.
Even mentioning nothing of MS just using similar constraints, you'll get a nearly identical design to Marginalia Search. Algorithm choices will be the same. Document and term IDs will encoded in a similar succinct fashion (in one of my experiments, the chosen design was binary compatible). Architecture will be the same. Services and components will to a significant degree have the same names and even using the same non-standard vocabulary. It isn't word for word identical, there sure are a lot of coincidental similarities that notably don't exist with search engines implemented in other languages.