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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by OneManyNone on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:51AM (#50484384)
That prediction (or at least that article) was written in March, and Opus 4.5 was released in November. For my team at least, that was pretty much the point at which 90% of our code became machine written. So that would mean he was only off by 2 months. Maybe 4 or 5 months at most for the point where it became true for basically the entire software industry.

I’m not saying he’ll be right about this one, not it’s a not ridiculous to claim he want fundamentally right about code.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by svieira on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:09AM (#50484675)
90% of the codebase I work in is still not written by machines, so ... he's still wrong?
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by 9rx on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:19AM (#50484823)
The rest of the computing world has had machines generating code since the 1940s when the first assembly languages, and thus assemblers, were created. What sees you cling to the raw bits and bytes still, rapidly approaching a century later? Amish?
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by CamperBob2 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:55AM (#50485383)
How about your competition? What percentage of their code are they still hand-authoring?
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by BigTTYGothGF on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:00PM (#50488852)
They, like us, are in a sector where quality of results matters very much. My id wants it to be very low, my superego wants it to be very high.
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by wellthisisgreat on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:23AM (#50485780)
Are we counting code that’s pre-2025?
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by Tadpole9181 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:06PM (#50486415)
Writing means new code, not old code.

And if you've been looking at Github's blog posts on their exponential contribution growth for the past 6 months, it's obviously come true this year.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by waffletower on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:38PM (#50486905)
No, he's not wrong. Answering your question with a 'yes' is like a bicyclist claiming that people can't move at 60+ miles an hour in a car.
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by BigTTYGothGF on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:56PM (#50488819)
The small percentage of people who use AI produce vast quantities of code (the average lifespan of which is a matter of days).
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by CrimsonRain on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:01PM (#50489596)
You're just obsolete. That's all.
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