As a engineer, I think these tools really are useful for coding, not perfect but useful… And it would make sense, because they robbed the open source community blind to make them.

There was a fuck ton of good training data of working code, and it is better at that than maybe more niche use cases where it’s sometimes surprisingly okay at it. But you give it a ton of good code and it’ll be decent at it… That shouldn’t be too surprising.

I do see it make common mistakes like over engineering the shit out of a problem that could be simplified, but so do devs.

I honestly think we got AGI and people refuse to admit it because it’s not the life changing technology that scifi made it out to be. I think there’s “meh” level AGI and logarithmic requirements to improve it, not exponential, and now they’re like “…it’s gonna cure cancer any day now”?

Nah, it’s not. I am pretty sure the fact that Trump is calling it super intelligence is the news I needed to hear to know it’s never happening in our lifetime, and that it’s the lie they all want us to believe.