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I keep being told by Anthropic and others than these AI coding tools make it effortless to write in new languages and port code from one language to another. T
by al_borland 9mo ago
I keep being told by Anthropic and others than these AI coding tools make it effortless to write in new languages and port code from one language to another.
This is an important lesson to watch what people do, not what they say.
- softwaredoug 9mo agoCoding is solved. Engineering is not solved.
- whattheheckheck 9mo agoCoding ain't solved
- bdangubic 9mo agothat is because software “engineering” does not exist, it only exist as a fairytale story and bullshit job titles like SW”E”
- SR2Z 9mo agoRight, the biggest driver of global economic growth is not based on engineering at all, and these people (who've made massive amounts of money) clearly don't know how to describe the work they do.
- bdangubic 9mo agoso money = “engineering” - that exactly computes with my post :) you should read this - all three parts, very educational (though with 30 years as “engineer” I don’t agree with it all but it is very educational, especially part 1): https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoYou should definitely ignore the “I tried nothing and nothing worked” crowd.
- senordevnyc 9mo agoAny examples of Anthropic saying that?
- al_borland 9mo ago~ Coding is largely a solved problem, and 100% of his code has been written by Claude since November. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-... As for others, Microsoft is saying they’re porting all C/C++ code to Rust with a goal of 1m LOC per engineer per month. This would largely be done with AI. https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all-c-c-code-with-rust-by-2030 https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all... If coding is a solved problem and there is no need to write code, does the language really matter at that point? If 1 engineer can handle 1m LOC per month, how big would these desktop apps be where maintaining native code becomes a problem?
- NewsaHackO 9mo agoNothing about what was said even contradicts that though. Maintaining three codebases is more work than maintaining one, so they are maintaining one.
- legostormtroopr 9mo agoBut if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems. Surely, it would be a flex to show that your AI agents are so good they make electron redundant. But they don’t. So it’s reasonable to ask why that is.
- NewsaHackO 9mo agoNo, it is completely unreasonable to ask why a company is not putting three times the resources into solving a problem than one times the resources.