Post #3771569
2026-07-04 19:17 UTC
18 months is an eternity in terms of AI performance. Local models now are better than the frontiers models were at that moment.
In my experience, AI automates the boring part of programming (which is actually writing the code). It leaves me able to focus on user experience, architecture, the fun stuff. Am I more productive? Maybe a little, yeah. Is it magically going to replace my whole team? Only a fool would think so.
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@calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2026-07-05 07:26
How many months have been since “in 3 months, every programmer will be out of a job due to the fast progress of AI”? At least a couple years. Sloppers overestimate by a huge amount both the current performance of LLMs and their improvement speed. The only thing that gets larger exponentially as time goes on is the cost. As predicted by actual scientific studies that said LLMs would hit a diminishing returns barrier rather quickly.