Fair point on sensationalism, I think it's a useful hook to get folks reading and talking.
There is a "Nuance" section at the bottom where I qualify most of the rah rah language.
That being said, I disagree that it is that far from actually working. Check out the codex demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY&ab_channel=OpenA... This is a year old and we've made a lot of progress since then.
The model is certainly capable of writing non pseudo-code, although I started hitting rate limits before I got it all the way there in my example.
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