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Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs.
How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?
(https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3)
The world will be awash in fake stomach acid, they will paint the walls in technicolor puike, bile will run in the streets
Mr Creosote has met his match.
In the end, a lot of writing code is about the code that isn't written, and hand edited automatically generated code has been with us pretty much since the time text editors were powerful enough to support it.
When these people, who learned their craft by doing it, retire or give up because idiot managers replace them with LLM's & they can't get jobs
Who will fix the bugs then ?
There won't be any new experienced people who know how to debug & all the rest will be gone
'Our metric shall rule them all!'
It doesnt' do anything, of course, but still.
No one said anything about the quality or even usefulness of said code?
Instead of 1 function, the students who used AI to do their work returned a 7 function program: contains_vowel(txt) which in turn called contains_a(txt), contains_e(txt) contains_i(txt)....
There's zero possibility of it happening without major investment in the infrastructure they already refuse to do for humans.
If "AI" would write 50% of the code, that would "save me" 10% of my time, or most likely less, all under the assumption that the code is perfect, which of course is just a wet dream of some managers that don't know shit about technology.
He doesn't care about reality. He got his gigantic investments and he got his big pay bonus. Results do not matter, especially when he can say "another 6 months" and the cycle repeats.
There is a well-known saying: ”The last 10% of a product’s development takes 90% of the time.”
Even if that was true by line-count (and it won’t be, just another Elonism), it still wouldn’t make much difference.
Further, a lot of lines in industry codebases arent handwritten even now! ”Code Generators” provide devs with great options to avoid writing boilerplate code themselves. But they don’t make random mistakes.
“Often times fewer lines of code is way better than more lines of code,” he observed. “So I'm never really sure why that's the exciting metric that people like to brag about.”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
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