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AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

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196 points yuedongze | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rogerkirkness ◴[08 Dec 25 17:39 UTC] No.46195219[source]▶
Appealing, but this is coming from someone smart/thoughtful. No offence to 'rest of world', but I think that most people have felt this way for years. And realistically in a year, there won't be any people who can keep up.
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dontlikeyoueith ◴[08 Dec 25 18:10 UTC] No.46195639[source]▶
> And realistically in a year, there won't be any people who can keep up.

I've heard the same claim every year since GPT-3.

It's still just as irrational as it was then.

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adventured ◴[08 Dec 25 18:24 UTC] No.46195788[source]▶
You're rather dramatically demonstrating how remarkable the progress has been: GPT-3 was horrible at coding. Claude Opus 4.5 is good at it.

They're already far faster than anybody on HN could ever be. Whether it takes another five years or ten, in that span of time nobody on HN will be able to keep up with the top tier models. It's not irrational, it's guaranteed. The progress has been extraordinary and obvious, the direction is certain, the outcome is certain. All that is left is to debate whether it's a couple of years or closer to a decade.

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Arainach ◴[08 Dec 25 18:32 UTC] No.46195892[source]▶
People claimed GPT-3 was great at coding when it launched. Those who said otherwise were dismissed. That has continued to be the case in every generation.
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1. esafak ◴[08 Dec 25 23:30 UTC] No.46199148[source]▶
Are you saying the current models are not good at coding? That is a strong claim.
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2. Arainach ◴[09 Dec 25 05:37 UTC] No.46201613[source]▶
For brand new projects? Perhaps. For working with existing projects in large code bases? Still not living up to the hype. Still sick of explaining to leadership that they're not magic and "agentic" isn't magic either. Still sick of everyone not realizing that if you made coding 300% faster (which AI hasn't) that doesn't help when coding is less than half the hours of my week. Still sick of the "productivity gains" being subsidized by burning out competent code reviewers calling bullshit on things that don't work or will cause problems down the road.