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Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:08PM (#46436129)
there's a huge flaw in the logic here but I can't pinpoint it

we've never had machines that can reason. today, they reason badly. tomorrow, they'll reason better. not all ai research white papers will pan out, but some will. the ai research community is acutely aware of the limitations in reasoning; it's their whole mission right now. 100% chance someone will make progress. Analogous to the chip industry or self driving, in that regard

incremental improvements in reasoning will broaden the dead zone for human developers

what difference does it make if in 20 years NASA still needs a few human developers but the rest of us are unemployed? ai agents still can't get you to the moon with one shot coding session in 2045? who cares?

the "still can't" we really need to be worried about is "politicians still can't consider UBI"

Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:00PM (#46436034)
maybe they'll ask cut off the free tiers in 2026 and the only thing left will be China and open router
Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:55PM (#46435975)
i had to disable baby Ceph (Deepseek 3.1) from writing changes in Continue because he's like a toddler. But, he did confirm some solutions and wrote a routine and turn me on to some libraries, etc

so I see what you're saying. he comes up with the wrong answers a lot to a problem involving a group of classes in related files

however it's Continue, so it can read files in vs code which is really nice and that helps a lot with its comprehension so sometimes it does find the issue or at least the nature of the issue

I tend to give it bug n-1 to pre digest while I work on bug n