Call me when a disinterested third-party says so. PR announcements by the very people who have a large stake in our belief in their product are unreliable.
Citation needed?
Closest I've seen to that was Dario saying AI would write 90% of the code, but that's very different from declaring the death of software development as an occupation.
AI Engineers aren't actually SWE's per se; they use code but they see it as tedious non-main work IMO. They are happy to automate their compliment and raise in status vs SWE's who typically before all of this had more employment opportunities and more practical ways to show value.
> Cheeseman finds Claude consistently catches things he missed. “Every time I go through I’m like, I didn’t notice that one! And in each case, these are discoveries that we can understand and verify,” he says.
Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.
Why? What purpose would quotes serve better than a paper with numbers and code? Just seems like nitpicking here. The article could have gone without a single quote (or had several more) and it wouldn't really change anything. And that quote is not really vague in the context of the article.
Even if the article is accurate, it still makes sense to question the motives of the publisher. Especially if they’re selling a product.
Saying what? This describes three projects that use an Anthropic’s product. Do you need a third party to confirm that? Or do you need someone to tell you if they are legit?
There are hundreds of announcements by vendors ơn HN. Did you object to them all or only when your own belief is against them?