alt Hacker NewsWhat you’re doing is the classic No True Scotsman fallacy.
“Isn’t real” is a tell for that. It’s the same as saying it’s not a “true” intelligence.
Define what you mean by “true”, then. But for me, what I’m interested in is functional capability, not some mysterious ineffable quality that only humans can have. And in terms of functional capability, current models are certainly better at software development than you are. You’re just in denial.
Perhaps I was unclear: the part that isn't real is the generalization. The models appear to generalize because they're fitted to so many discrete tasks that it almost doesn't appear to matter. But then it leaks, and the failure modes reveal no coherent model or process that generated the failure. The labs only have one answer for this, which is more duct tape.
> current models are certainly better at software development than you are. You’re just in denial.
I have no ego in this. It could be true. Wikipedia is also "smarter" than I am; it "knows" so many more concepts than I could ever. But regardless, I think the state of slopcoded messes like Claude Code shows that the models are missing something.