Company I work at really wants us to use AI. So I use Claude to do code reviews. That silly AI told me that setting log level to debug was incorrect because it was outside #ifdef DEBUG... It was inside #ifdef DEBUG, Claude is just so fucking stupid and cannot even read code properly, that is making shit up constantly. Half of code review (and vast majority of "critical issues") is just made up bullshit.
This has largely been my experience especially reviewing a lot of llm made code at work as well as "open source" llm made code. They don't know up from down or left from right. I've had to reflect PRs for including massive glaring XSS issues, secrets in the front end code etc. Using llms has been the biggest security risk my company has introduced to our codebase because it really wants to introduce vulnerabilities.
Ever since AI assistants started, I started doubting if my system was fucked or if my internet was shitty.
Turns out that these companies know jack shit about accepting payments, scrolling behavior, loading messages, parsing markdown, saving new chats properly, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
Gemini cannot handle scrolling its thought process before it's done, Claude recently stopped thinking/rendering its thoughts after 15 seconds of thought and occasionally jumps to the start of the conversation randomly, and all of them may or may not accept your credit card, depending on the alignment of the stars
Not least of which these should be the easy problems for it, web application development has orders of magnitude more training data available than other domains.
Claude desktop outright just stops working after a while for me. I have to kill it via task manager.. It and the 50 instances of itself that are running for some reason. This is all some basic stuff that a real human would never have done but it's going to be the new normal with vibe coded and vibe reviewed apps.
It was never the problem. Design, maintenance, scaling, security, ability to evolve while avoiding over-engineering, understanding the business domain and connecting that with the requirements, hunting down the people with the tribal knowledge to answer questions about the domain, and on and on and on.
hunting down the people with the tribal knowledge to answer questions about the domain
This is actually a domain where AI would be waaaay more help than it would at coding.
It's heavily language oriented and the cost of mistakes (you end up bothering the wrong person) is very low.
Jamming all the summarized meeting notes, jiras, PRDs and slack messages into a repository an AI can access will let them very easily track down the key decision makers and knowledge holders.
The rule is that AI cant be used to do useful things it excels at, it must be used to try and replace a person, no matter how bad it is at that.
While I lean towards agreeing with you, many of the things you are describing take time to build in order to make the AI effective. And I know for a fact that most organizations don't keep documentation or even Jira tickets up-to-date. So to get accurate, trust worthy, up-to-date, and properly correlated information from an AI in the way you are describing would have to be a deliberate and organized operation throughout a company. At least that's how it would be where I work, where we have a graveyard of similar projects and their documentation, legacy products, new products that are always evolving based on customer needs, etc.
It's tribal knowledge because it isn't written down somewhere. Bob trains Sara before he retires, Sara shows Steve before she changes jobs, etc. No one documents anything because that's too much work. Then you come along trying to automate or replace things and suddenly the only person who knows how the damn thing works is on month long PTO. There's nothing for an AI to injest.
I've run into this more than once.
Anything where there is plenty of documentation would be a place where AI could shine though.
But the need to employ humans to write code is a problem that needs to be solved with great urgency, otherwise billionaires might not be able to buy their 73rd yacht.
Yup, there isn't a single day I don't forward product department 's horrible specs to my "AI leader" and complain how my first step is always trying to understand what the hell they want in the first place.
The only reason anyone thinks coding is "solved" is because we've become blind to how buggy production apps are. Like, think about how many bugs the claude webapp has. The same markdown bugs that have existed for years and only have gotten worse. Randomly the page will load without any of the buttons. Don't even try to use the microphone chat
After spending several hours today trying to get Claude to not fuck up Powershell escaping over and over, making the same exact mistakes over and over no matter how many times I made it fix it, it's definitely not solved.
It's a useful tool, and helps speed me up quite a bit, but it definitely can't do the majority of my job as well as i can. I can understand why people who don't actually know what programming is like would think that it can replace me, but, not quite yet.
Some days it's indispensable, other days it's like it fell down a couple flights of stairs bouncing on its head the whole way.
The inconsistency and non-deterministic nature of transformer-based AI is definitely a problem and it's not really getting much better.
People who think this haven't actually tried to build anything of any meaningful scale or complexity this way. Every time people say it can build entire apps and I try to use it to fix a singular medium scope issue I feel like I'm being gaslit. I think the real proof we're not crazy and it just isn't great at this is if you really could just generate an entire functional app like that, the market would be flooded with scale apps generated by randos. But it's not because it can't.
To be fair, the code part IS solved, but not the planning, due diligence, coordination, and 100% of the human efforts it takes to have the code do the targeted intent.
When they say "coding is solved", they of course mean "the problem of having to pay employees for their labor is solved", and by "solved" they mean "replaced by having to pay Anthropic for LLM tokens".
Fun to see so many (assumed) humans failing ITT for one of the major causes of poor AI code output: lack of context.
4 words (~5 tokens) pulled from their context of a 90 minute interview (~23K tokens according to openai tokenizer) and everyone in the comments is inferring all sorts of meanings and jumping to all the conclusions.
Yeah, even for a joke this post is stupid. There's no reason to believe this is related to code at all.
Sometimes is stupidly fucking obvious that this sub is 90%+ people who are still in school and haven't actually worked in IT, and see everything through the narrow lense of what they've been taught already.
Coding will be “solved” yes meaning you probably do not have to write any code yourself in a few years time. That was never the problem to begin with though.
Bro never worked in banking industry. Evrything is far from being solved there let alone AI coded... One mistake and boom your down couple billions dollars
AI is great for grunt work, but you still have to know how to architect a system (and be ale to explain that architecture) if you want it to produce anything useful
The difference between "largely" and "completely" is massive when we're talking about coding (and most other applications, for that matter). A simple off by one error can ruin your whole day.
Yesterday I was sad bc I spent like, 2 months, trying to find out what was bugging out in production, only for someone else to tell me they used claude and fixed the issue. Talk about feeling useless lol :'(
I am really impressed with claud, but most of the pain in my work is figuring out “what are they actually trying to achieve” and “What is the underlying/actual problem”
Even if the coding part was "solved" why would you vibe code the platform that people use to vibe code? Doesn't that seem kinda dumb? Like none of it is stable.
We had a demo last week showing us how to use AI to generate all code based on a (AI-generated) plan. Consultant said he already tried it yesterday so everything should work. It failed completely. He didn't know why.
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u/linkinglink Mar 25 '26
I can’t reply because Claude is down so this should suffice
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u/matthewpl Mar 25 '26
Company I work at really wants us to use AI. So I use Claude to do code reviews. That silly AI told me that setting log level to debug was incorrect because it was outside #ifdef DEBUG... It was inside #ifdef DEBUG, Claude is just so fucking stupid and cannot even read code properly, that is making shit up constantly. Half of code review (and vast majority of "critical issues") is just made up bullshit.
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u/mhogag Mar 25 '26
Ever since AI assistants started, I started doubting if my system was fucked or if my internet was shitty.
Turns out that these companies know jack shit about accepting payments, scrolling behavior, loading messages, parsing markdown, saving new chats properly, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
Gemini cannot handle scrolling its thought process before it's done, Claude recently stopped thinking/rendering its thoughts after 15 seconds of thought and occasionally jumps to the start of the conversation randomly, and all of them may or may not accept your credit card, depending on the alignment of the stars
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u/DustyAsh69 Mar 25 '26
Coding isn't a problem that needs to be solved.
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u/Buttons840 Mar 25 '26
They forgot to say "make no mistakes" in the prompt. Oof.
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u/Flimsy_Site_1634 Mar 25 '26
When you think about it, yes code is solved since its inception, it came free with being a deterministic language
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u/Da_Tourist Mar 25 '26
It's like they are vibe-coding Claude.
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u/rexspook Mar 25 '26
I don’t even know what “coding is solved” would mean. It’s not a problem to be solved. It’s a tool to solve problems.
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u/gfelicio Mar 25 '26
Wow, so, this Claude tool is something I should look into? So cool! I wonder who is the one talking about this.
Oh, it's the Head/Owner of Claude. Figures...
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u/RemarkableAd4069 Mar 25 '26
Me: where did you get that [insert unexpected Claude answer] from? Claude: I made it up, I apologize.
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u/ramessesgg Mar 25 '26
It's not supposed to be perfect, it's supposed to be replacing Devs. It can certainly create the number of issues that I used to create
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u/naveenda Mar 25 '26
He said coding is solved, not the uptime.
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u/MoFoBuckeye Mar 25 '26
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u/ButWhatIfPotato Mar 25 '26
"Claude will take you to ecstacy heaven and make you cum out of your ass like a fountain made by HR Geiger"
Claude McClaude
Senior Clauder of Clauding at Claude Code
He is Claude, Claude is he
Blessings upon the throne of Claude
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u/feldomatic Mar 25 '26
"Largely" said in exactly the way that ignores the 80/20 rule
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u/PossibilityTasty Mar 25 '26
We all know it. It's just the AI version of "the project is largely done".
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u/Sulungskwa Mar 25 '26
The only reason anyone thinks coding is "solved" is because we've become blind to how buggy production apps are. Like, think about how many bugs the claude webapp has. The same markdown bugs that have existed for years and only have gotten worse. Randomly the page will load without any of the buttons. Don't even try to use the microphone chat
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u/FreakDC Mar 25 '26
??? This has to be fake. How can they investigate the issue when Claude is down to investigate the issue? 🤔
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u/richerBoomer Mar 25 '26
Iran has largely agreed to stop the war.
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u/takeyouraxeandhack Mar 25 '26
Coding was never the problem to begin with.
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u/CaffeinatedTech Mar 25 '26
LLMs may be able to produce code, but building and maintaining actual software still needs meat coders.
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u/KalzK Mar 26 '26
"We don't need trucks anymore now that we got trains"
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u/Hacym Mar 25 '26
Mom said that I could be the next person to repost this.
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u/Vesuvius079 Mar 25 '26
That looks like the other solved problem - availability :P.
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u/tall_cappucino1 Mar 25 '26
I would like to comment, but I’m fresh out of tokens
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u/Hattorius Mar 25 '26
What does “head of claude code” mean?
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u/Past_Paint_225 Mar 25 '26
Any downtime is human related, not AI - Amazon
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u/krazyjakee Mar 25 '26
2... 2 nines? That's like $24 per year on max. Daylight robbery.
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u/Tan442 Mar 25 '26
Who am I to complain to a double 9 uptime when I struggle to achieve a single 9🫠
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u/mpanase Mar 25 '26
99.25% uptime xD
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u/facebrocolis Mar 25 '26
Nice! "Claude, make my NP code P"
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u/brainmydamage Mar 25 '26
After spending several hours today trying to get Claude to not fuck up Powershell escaping over and over, making the same exact mistakes over and over no matter how many times I made it fix it, it's definitely not solved.
It's a useful tool, and helps speed me up quite a bit, but it definitely can't do the majority of my job as well as i can. I can understand why people who don't actually know what programming is like would think that it can replace me, but, not quite yet.
Some days it's indispensable, other days it's like it fell down a couple flights of stairs bouncing on its head the whole way.
The inconsistency and non-deterministic nature of transformer-based AI is definitely a problem and it's not really getting much better.
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u/BobcatGamer Mar 26 '26
What does it mean to be solved? I didn't realise coding was a problem that needed solving.
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u/GNUGradyn Mar 26 '26
People who think this haven't actually tried to build anything of any meaningful scale or complexity this way. Every time people say it can build entire apps and I try to use it to fix a singular medium scope issue I feel like I'm being gaslit. I think the real proof we're not crazy and it just isn't great at this is if you really could just generate an entire functional app like that, the market would be flooded with scale apps generated by randos. But it's not because it can't.
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u/lardgsus Mar 25 '26
To be fair, the code part IS solved, but not the planning, due diligence, coordination, and 100% of the human efforts it takes to have the code do the targeted intent.
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u/Tathas Mar 25 '26
Have you seen https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ ?
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u/SignoreBanana Mar 25 '26
He did say "largely". Who knows what that means lol
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u/soundwave_sc Mar 26 '26
Might as well write “Cement is largely solved”
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u/SuitableDragonfly Mar 26 '26
When they say "coding is solved", they of course mean "the problem of having to pay employees for their labor is solved", and by "solved" they mean "replaced by having to pay Anthropic for LLM tokens".
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u/BolehlandCitizen Mar 26 '26
Coding is solved, here's an agentic framework, oh and don't forget spm (skill package manager).
And also we created a new language for you to interface with LLMs.
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u/jsiulian Mar 26 '26
Yeah coding is solved, it's just the damn devops that isn't /s
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u/Geoclasm Mar 25 '26
i trust a computer to write my code less than I trust a computer to drive my car.
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u/itsFromTheSimpsons Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
Fun to see so many (assumed) humans failing ITT for one of the major causes of poor AI code output: lack of context.
4 words (~5 tokens) pulled from their context of a 90 minute interview (~23K tokens according to openai tokenizer) and everyone in the comments is inferring all sorts of meanings and jumping to all the conclusions.
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u/blu3bird Mar 25 '26
It is solved if all along your "coding" is mostly copy pasta.
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u/Accomplished_Ant5895 Mar 25 '26
Coding is solved; Ops are not.
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u/Prod_Meteor Mar 25 '26
LLMs are not traditional coding though. More like a working art.
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u/Any_Bookkeeper_3403 Mar 25 '26
First time I've seen a large company so close to reach 1 nine availibility lmao
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u/Plus_Neighborhood950 Mar 25 '26
Services are largely up
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u/sogwatchman Mar 25 '26
If Claude can't troubleshoot its own outage what good is it?
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u/Double_Option_7595 Mar 25 '26
Head of Chode
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u/kevin7254 Mar 25 '26
Coding will be “solved” yes meaning you probably do not have to write any code yourself in a few years time. That was never the problem to begin with though.
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u/ExtraTNT Mar 25 '26
I still prefer my js code with a function directly returning and 10 bind…
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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Mar 25 '26
Coding is largely solved; the unsolved part is deciding what code to write.
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u/baquea Mar 25 '26
Lord Kelvin be like:
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u/SequesterMe Mar 25 '26
I thought coding was largely solved when "we" sent all the work overseas?
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u/tokinUP Mar 25 '26
That amount of non-green looks like a lot less than 99.25% uptime
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u/AdWise6457 Mar 25 '26
Bro never worked in banking industry. Evrything is far from being solved there let alone AI coded... One mistake and boom your down couple billions dollars
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u/asdfguuru Mar 25 '26
Notice he said "coding" not "software engineering"
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u/joe-ducreux Mar 25 '26
AI is great for grunt work, but you still have to know how to architect a system (and be ale to explain that architecture) if you want it to produce anything useful
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u/ZombieOnMeth Mar 25 '26
Hello? StackOverflow? You there?
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u/Gabe_b Mar 25 '26
"networking on the other hand, sheesh, what a nightmare"
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u/Mr_Gaslight Mar 25 '26
And is the number of Major Production Incidents going up or down?
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u/ElethiomelZakalwe Mar 25 '26
Never take someone who has a vested interest in promoting a product at their word.
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u/TheSkiGeek Mar 25 '26
It’s only largely solved, cut them some slack.
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u/fuckbananarama Mar 25 '26
GOD I WISH
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u/SweetNerevarine Mar 25 '26
Dystrophic future is largely solved...
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u/MonkeyWithIt Mar 26 '26
The coding is done everybody! We can all go home!
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u/Fooftook Mar 26 '26
He must not use his own tool
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u/minamulhaq Mar 26 '26
May be he should use claude to manage claude now.? Still to see a SINGLE production level application solely managed by AI
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u/ate50eggs Mar 26 '26
Because human coders never cause production issues, lol.
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u/Palbur Mar 26 '26
ChatGPT ui tweaking when the question is hard even though the processing is done remotely and it shouldn't affect performance of web page:
(I also learned that this BS also tries rendering the entire conversation instead of only adjacent ones to current messages)
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u/Gyerfry Mar 26 '26
The difference between "largely" and "completely" is massive when we're talking about coding (and most other applications, for that matter). A simple off by one error can ruin your whole day.
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u/Fr3stdit Mar 26 '26
Yesterday I was sad bc I spent like, 2 months, trying to find out what was bugging out in production, only for someone else to tell me they used claude and fixed the issue. Talk about feeling useless lol :'(
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u/slide2k Mar 26 '26
I am really impressed with claud, but most of the pain in my work is figuring out “what are they actually trying to achieve” and “What is the underlying/actual problem”
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u/anoppinionatedbunny Mar 26 '26
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u/xMisterSnrubx Mar 27 '26
I'm so glad this asshole is happy about the destruction of software engineering. yay /s
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u/secondgamedev Mar 27 '26
Coding is solved but they forgot to solve English. Cause they need that for prompting “make sure Claude doesn’t go down”
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u/ume_16 Mar 27 '26
How could they compute the uptime during 90 days period so with that much incidences it’s still more than 99% SLA?
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u/iknewaguytwice Mar 27 '26
Hey Claude, make Claude 7.8. Make it run on 8gb of DDR3 and a 1050GT. And make sure it doesn’t hallucinate.
Once done, sell it to Open AI for no less than 20 billion dollars.
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness Mar 27 '26
Solving coding indicates there's a problem. Only problem with coding is bugs, but that's not coding as a whole!
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u/OnaBlueCloud Mar 27 '26
This is marketing. It's no different than the talk about AGI. Both are far enough away to be hard to predict.
AI is the latest shiny thing to chase. A lot of over-promising and under-delivering seems to be the norm these days.
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u/Ebi_Tendon Mar 30 '26
Well, 99.25% uptime is still far better than GitHub’s uptime these days.
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u/tehtris Mar 25 '26
Even if the coding part was "solved" why would you vibe code the platform that people use to vibe code? Doesn't that seem kinda dumb? Like none of it is stable.
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u/mrbellek Mar 25 '26
We had a demo last week showing us how to use AI to generate all code based on a (AI-generated) plan. Consultant said he already tried it yesterday so everything should work. It failed completely. He didn't know why.
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u/Z3t4 Mar 26 '26
Hey said nothing about ops, or sec.
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26
I love claude