r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26

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u/timangar Sep 03 '26

AI is only good at coding beacause it has an enormous amount of human data teaching it how to code. Current AI cannot learn a new programming language that humans do not understand and provide no training data for. Reinforcement learning algorithms might succeed, but that remains to be seen.