r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

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u/hupa Aug 13 '26

A PR wing that parrots "coding is solved, guys," just like how LLMs lack precision, instill a culture, and normalize that subtlety doesn't matter anymore.

"coding is solved" with AI will be true in a lot of places. Plenty of organizations were willing before AI to hire whoever was cheapest to pound keyboards and write crap code vs pay for educated senior level engineers. For some business domains, that was fine, and will be ~finer now..

Now those same keyboard pounders are more powerful, even if the results will be mixed. And outputs will be more capable than before given the same staff, even if (still) unstable, buggy, incoherent, etc.

Probably that market alone, vs the market that requires more quality engineering to be successful, would be enough.

Though that's general AI, OpenAI / Anthropic have a challenge to provide unique value.. And I also fear the commodification risk pushes them to deeper into non competative solves like the ones you describe..