I too have a lot of cool ideas that turn out to be much harder to make than to talk about. The very best case performance of code assistance tools as they curre

I too have a lot of cool ideas that turn out to be much harder to make than to talk about. The very best case performance of code assistance tools as they currently exist seems to be that they moderately increase the productivity of developers who know what they want and know enough to check the autocompleted work. As a ML researcher who's watched the progress of both code generation and natural language processing for about 10 years in earnest, this is a crazy awesome result, a breakthrough in the field that's very laudable (except for all the shady data provenance sleight of hand that allowed the companies spearheading this effort to make progress, but that's been talked about by people who know a lot more about applicable law than I do and I won't do it justice, and it's tangential in a discussion of what's possible). But there is no result so impressive that business people in the midst of a tech hype wave won't apply some added bullshit to in order to fundraise, and "the end of programming" seems more like that than a realistic assessment of the capabilities of current systems, or even a plausible result of merely incremental progress on them