The only thing AI can code is glue code. But that is the majority of what people write these days. I've avoided that kind of work and AI disappoints me every time I've tried it with one exception - text to images.
I am curious, do you think it will stay this way? AI couldn't code anything 2.5 years ago, why should it stop with glue code?
Yesterday I fed the first 3 questions from the 2024 Putnam Exam [0] into a new open source LLM and it got 3/3. The progress is incredible and I don't expect it to suddenly stop where it is.
LLMs literally grew out of autocomplete, and aside from having a huge amount of information they still don't understand, and certainly don't learn during inference.
The open source model as worked through the problem step by step (it was R1 so I could read its chain of thought). That could be an elaborate ruse, but also unlikely.