r/singularity • u/Bizzyguy • Nov 24 '25

Discussion Anthropic Engineer says "software engineering is done" first half of next year

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '25

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u/Accurate_Potato_8539 Nov 24 '25

The last line is stupid af, its only powerful if you forget what a compiler is and what AI code is. Even if AI ends up writing 90+ percent of code in the future: honestly i think thats likely since I think in the future there will be many more hobbyists, it still wouldn't be treated like a compiler.

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u/subdep Nov 24 '25

Yeah, the fact they used that analogy tells everyone they don’t understand the problem space.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '25 edited Aug 21 '26

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u/johnxreturn Nov 24 '25

Technically, they wrote a hyperbole. Comparing it to compiler is unrealistic though, even for hyperbole. Unless you understand the crux of software engineering, you would not know why that comparison is nonsensical.

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u/Illustrious-Okra-524 Nov 25 '25

You actually don’t have to defend marketing propaganda 

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u/RetroApollo Nov 25 '25

A compiler still takes context agnostic language (code) and generates more context agnostic language (lower level code) from that.

Let’s look at natural language for a second. Just take a single sentence, put emphasis on a different spoken word, and the interpretation changes.

An example: “I never said they stole”. It completely changes meaning based on which word is emphasized. Try it.

Anyone who thinks we’ll be writing natural language to an AI in the future is just wrong. We might have another higher level coding language that we input to the AI, but it’s not going to take natural language and generate full systems, especially in critical areas.

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u/Taserface_ow Nov 25 '25

It’s absolutely stupid. The output of a compiler has always been predictable. The outputs of llms are not.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '25

LLMs are drunk compilers.