Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by CapsAdmin on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:55PM
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My experience lines up with this.
Last year, the frontier llms could produce working code, but the code looked brittle and overly defensive. Earlier this year, it got better and started to take more of the codebase into account. Since Claude 5.5, the quality improved substantially.
A lot of these things could be improved with prompt engineering and steering, but much less so nowadays.
But I don't think code quality is easy to measure, so the best we have is people's experience.
Last year, the frontier llms could produce working code, but the code looked brittle and overly defensive. Earlier this year, it got better and started to take more of the codebase into account. Since Claude 5.5, the quality improved substantially.
A lot of these things could be improved with prompt engineering and steering, but much less so nowadays.
But I don't think code quality is easy to measure, so the best we have is people's experience.