A running joke we had at my startup years ago was "... and after we ship this feature we'll be finished and we will never have to write another line of code again!"
Good software is built with future changes in mind - that's why I care so much about things like automated test suites and documentation and code maintainability.
Letting LLMs generate black box garbage code sounds like a terrible idea to me. The idea that LLMs will get so good at coding that we won't mind is pure science fiction - writing code is only one part of the craft of delivering useful software.
Malbolge is a couple of decades old. Apparently the first working "Hello World" was made by a genetic algorithm.
this is like the third time i've mentioned this on HN (over a year.) Apparently everyone else is too busy complaining or defending Claude Code to notice.
Dogs can also factor 15:
great!
You'd only need one accurate ASM manual per variant.
LLMs work best with interfaces meant for humans because they're trained on human behavior. It's why they generate JSON and not BSON.
Don’t see where current AI fits in this except being a better intellisense for an IDE.