The funny thing is it appears we may see a return to the software output from AI being efficient low level code. So while the compute to actually write the software rockets upwards the software itself might broadly become dramatically more efficient again.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
by SoftTalker on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:35PM
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I suppose that is possible, but I have not seen it yet. When I ask an LLM to write code for me, "dramatically efficient" are not the adjectives that come to mind to describe the results. Usually "well, it works" is about as good as I can hope for, and I often don't even get that at least on the first iteration.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
by byzantinegene on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:01AM
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on the contrary, AI seems to do better at high level code generation
The developers who knew how to write efficient low-level code found that there were no jobs for that anynmore, so today the developers who can work at that level are very few.
The same will happen with AI being the new abstraction. In another decade or two, very few people will be able to write code by hand. We'll need a rack of compute in a data center and multiple KW of power to do what we used to do on a desktop PC drawing a couple of hundred Watts.