Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code(fortune.com)
13 pointsby jsemrau4 hours ago9 comments
  • readme3 hours ago
    I can't really trust this kind of statement since there is an obvious conflict of interest.

    You can write lots of code with an LLM.

    "I did ~20 PRs yesterday all coded by AI"

    I guess anthropic makes you use a pull request for minor code changes.

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  • browningstreet29 minutes ago
    I believe this to the same degree that I believe Soderbergh films his movies on iPhones.
  • hehrhrbrh3 hours ago
    Yeah, we’ve noticed.

    Anthropic over billed me by $300 last month.

    • EddieRinglean hour ago
      I didn't get as far as experiencing their billing system; I decided to finally look into Claude recently and discovered that their pricing page's content area was completely blank. It loads on my phone if I'm off WiFi, so I assume my PiHole is blocking something there. That being said, if anyone at Anthropic is reading this, I'm primarily an Android dev but if you'd like to hire me to write a simple static HTML page just like I taught myself back when I was in elementary school, I think it could significantly improve your conversion rates or whatever, and I've been unable to even get an interview anywhere for the past 7 months so I really think we'd be helping each other out.

      (Suffice to say I passed on Claude/Claude Code for the time being.)

  • infomaniac31 minutes ago
    It shows.

    They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right?

    Right?!

  • illist-ell1s2 hours ago
    Every time I ask Opus 4.5 to generate code it is a mess, by mess I mean a human would not have done it that way, it is sub-optimal for maintainability and improvements. The more complex the worse. But generally at least the code works. If I need to modify it, what a nightmare, better tell it to modify so AI slop leads to more AI slop.

    It is the same as writing a story. It ain't gonna win The Hugo Award. We know it is AI, full of cliches and corporate speak. I think the difference is people are used to crap code, where as they won't read a crap book.

    Most code is crap because 1) engineers don't care about the software 2) high turn over 3) getting rushed

    So maybe AI just generates code at the level most people are used to, I have no idea because compared to my code Claude code is bad, but bad is not useless. I put the bad code in its little corner and it if it does its job it is fine.

  • tayo423 hours ago
    I feel like collectively we should just stop talking about this and speculating and just see what happens in a year.

    Is programming obsolete, or is it needed more then ever becasue we need to fix all the crap generated. Let's just all follow up at the end of the year.

    Itll be quiet though if we're still hand writing code though I think

  • villgaxan hour ago
    I mean CRUD apps aren’t really that difficult of a coding gig to begin with.
  • almosthere3 hours ago
    I mean to be honest, we're a company of 12 devs, I think 100% of our code is agentic now. We almost treat it as a liability to hand write something.

    Apparently cursor keeps track and Opus4.5 is the model our top 3 devs use.

    • thebenedict3 hours ago
      I'd love to hear more about the workflow. Do you open PRs and is there human code review? What scale is your software used at?
    • nomelan hour ago
      What domain, if I may ask? I assume web?
    • scrubs3 hours ago
      Ok, I'll bite: 12 devs in what domain of work + 1 paragraph description of system's roles and responsibilities, please.
  • wetpaws2 hours ago
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