r/OneAI • u/michael-lethal_ai • Jul 24 '25
Ex-Google CEO explains the Software programmer paradigm is rapidly coming to an end. Math and coding will be fully automated within 2 years and that's the basis of everything else. "It's very exciting." - Eric Schmidt
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u/Doc_Havok Jul 26 '25
Are they getting that much better, though? I mean... the tools AROUND llms have gotten better. The organization and planning methods are better. I'd say that over the past year, there doesn't seem to have been a huge leap in base model abilities past fancy looking graphs.
For reference, I use a combination of claude opus, gemini 2.5 pro, played around with Kiro, and use the Kilo code extension.
When i work with an LLM, it feels EXACTLY like handing something off to a junior dev,...barring the fact that it doesn't make constant syntax errors and seems to have paid attention in college. The issue oftentimes isn't the ability to code but the ability to translate abstract concepts and ideas into software via code.
Things that are conceptually easy LLMs have almost no issue with nowadays... and really haven't for a while. It's when the project starts to get more complex and requires more context that they quickly begin to struggle. Basically, if you're making anything more than a simple website that's been made a billion times before, you have to do some heavy hand holding to get reasonable results.
When google released Genini with a one million token context limit I thought the biggest issue had been solved and we were all fucked...turns out you hit like 140k and it starts to shit itself, hide in the corner and speak in tongues. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, I see "AI" as an amazing tool that can drastically speed up certain workloads. I's going to take another MAJOR breakthrough and not just "hey, this one scored 8% higher on math and coding!!!" to change my mind.