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emehextoday at 2:32 PM4 repliesview on HN

"Coding is largely solved"


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supriyo-biswastoday at 3:37 PM

The funny thing is at my current employer, they mentioned that "coding is increasingly becoming a solved problem" and in the same breath, mentioned that one project was too hard for anyone to do so they're not doing it and would rather sell existing features...

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consptoday at 2:43 PM

While abused by LLM vendors, that phrase in one form or another I've been hearing since the early '00s and it's likely way older.

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techpressiontoday at 2:40 PM

I love that quote, especially considering the insane amount of bugs that are produced. It’s as easy to debunk as someone claiming ”I can jump to the moon”.

CamperBob2today at 4:33 PM

"This thing isn't 100% perfect, contrary to what absolutely no one anywhere said at any time"