Comment by eru
2 days ago
You could more or less use the same reasoning to argue for why humans can't write software.
And you'd be half-right: humans are extremely unreliable, and it takes a lot of safeguards and automated testing and PR reviews etc to get reliable software out of humans.
(Just to be clear, I agree that current models aren't exactly reliable. But I'm fairly sure with enough resources thrown at the problem, we could get reasonably reliable systems out of them.)
There’s a lot of projects with only one and two people behind it and they produce widely used software. Still have to see big tech producing something actually useful with one of those agents they’re touting about.