Comment by rixed

In my experience, it's more about "local" vs "large-scale" thinking. An LLM will be better at finding a bug that's "visible on screen" (or on the context window), whereas some design decisions that are hard to even put in words can be super important in practice (like, in C, how you manage the lifetimes of various objects, how you organise your threads and locks...) That's not purely "word manipulation", and there are not many good explanations of that on the internet, so it's understandably harder to learn for an LLM. A bit like chess vs go. They will get there quickly I'm sure. After all, AI beats us at go, too.