Comment by tombert
11 hours ago
Sure, but as I stated, even "professional" code is pretty bad a lot of the time. If it's able to generate code that's as good as professional code, then maybe it is solved.
I don't actually think it's a solved problem, I'm saying that the fact that it generates terrible code doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't have parity with humans.
You can get AI to generate the best code you have ever seen. It just takes time and direction. I can write "poetic" code, but it takes orders of magnitude more time. I can also write beautiful code with AI, but it is also time and brain intensive.
It generates terrible code when used in a nearly open loop manner, which all coding agents are currently doing.
And look what damage comes from that human generated code.
Now we get hyper mass production of the same quality.
Hard to argue with that.