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I think the base requirement to compete will keep going up. We already have AI models that can debug and audit code better than the best humans.

You used to have a career as a software engineer or devops person if you were good at debugging. Today, I challenge you to take any past production outages, toss the traces into Claude Fable, and see if it finds the bug faster than humans can.

I think this is the way the rest of white collar labor goes.

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> We already have AI models that can debug and audit code better than the best humans.

I'd love to see one someday.

Did you try my suggested experiment? Which issues did Fable take longer than a human to diagnose once you started to describe the symptoms?

He was quoting the claim you made. Shouldn't you have your own justification for it? Which tests did you run with both Fable as well as the best human programmers?

I “try your suggested experiment” several times per month at work. Usually when I’m on call.

It’s great at being a search engine for our docs and communications. It can also find bugs quickly in small repos with static analysis and coverage tools.

But when it comes to larger projects or interconnected systems, the time it takes to correct its “assumptions” is often longer than the time it takes to solve the entire problem myself.

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