Comment by bigstrat2003
11 hours ago
No, it isn't. It can autocomplete a fragment of a sketch of an idea into something that may or may not match the original vision and almost certainly has serious bugs which only manifest over time because they elude a cursory test.
You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced
Because Claude isn't a human the perception of it is different.
Humans can fly planes, computers too can fly planes. I'm not going to give the same leeway to a 'computer' flying a plane that I would to a human. Because we understand that humans are just that, humans. The demands placed on a computer are so very different.
What about driving a car?
Computers are already driving cars autonomously, possibly better than the average human already, and quite plausibly will eventually be better than the best human driver.
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