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- it is a very very very very fancy autocomplete

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Each year, as the models improve, we add one more "very".

how many do you add before they become more fancy at auto complete than humans though

Human developers generally don't autocomplete.

"thanks, you too"

You write code with the same level of attention you give to small talk with strangers?

Let they who has never ='d when they meant to == cast the first argument.

(There's a reason why we benefit from code review).

Way to move the goalposts!

"thanks, you too"

“lgtm”

12?

Extrapolating as "very" approaches infinity: "Let there be light!"

- its like going at the speed of light to achieve 100% accuracy.

- you ll keep getting closer and closer but you ll never be at 100% as long as you have a non zero mass

Sure, but it's at the point now where it can autocomplete a fragment of a sketch of an idea into a complete working product.

No, it isn't. It can autocomplete a fragment of a sketch of an idea into something that may or may not match the original vision and almost certainly has serious bugs which only manifest over time because they elude a cursory test.

You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced

Because Claude isn't a human the perception of it is different.

Humans can fly planes, computers too can fly planes. I'm not going to give the same leeway to a 'computer' flying a plane that I would to a human. Because we understand that humans are just that, humans. The demands placed on a computer are so very different.

What about driving a car?

Computers are already driving cars autonomously, possibly better than the average human already, and quite plausibly will eventually be better than the best human driver.

Precisely my point. Say for examples planes, trains or automobiles, humans may make way more errors than a computer does but you can bet your bottom dollar the threshold for allowing computers to autonomously control the above is way higher. Because the expectation is that if it is a computer it ought do it far better/safer.

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