AI Coding Models
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Uberti: AI models will eventually do all kernel generation superhumanly
“And when the models keep getting smarter, they'll eventually do all of it. They will become superhuman.”
Shipper: AI coding models will reach senior engineer level within a year
“It's like very, it's very clear that in a year or less, it's going to be senior engineer level, right?”
Jeff Dean: Crisply specifying requirements will become a critical engineering skill
“And the better you get at interacting with these models, And I think one of the ways people will get better is they will get really good at crisply specifying things rather than leaving things to ambiguity. And that is actually probably not a bad thing. It's n…”
French-Owen: AI models still struggle with software architecture
“And I think having a smell for what the right architecture is, is still the area where the models, like, don't do the best job.”
McDermott: Coding models will drive support automation more than computer-use agents
“I actually think what's really going to make a difference more likely than computer use models, computer using models is just the improvements in coding models. And that's a little bit basing the future on the immediate past. Coding models have gotten gotten s…”
Masad: AI coding models work for any language with 100M+ speakers
“Most, most, you know, mainstream languages that has, like, a hundred million plus people who speak at AI is pretty good at it.”
Amodei: Coding AI models accelerates development of future AI models
“My view is that coding is particularly interesting because A, the adoption is fast. And B, getting better at coding with the models actually helps you to develop the next model.”
Casado: I consistently underestimated how fast AI coding models would advance
“I mean, the one for me that I've just consistently got wrong is just how fast these coding models advance. And this is probably just sunk cost fallacy my entire life. I've just been this nerdy program and programming since the nineties. I mean, it's like, it's…”
Casado: AI Coding Models Are Bringing Veteran Developer-Executives Back To Programming
“I know a bunch of very strong developers that have been developing for a very long Time that have basically stopped. They're like running companies now or whatever. And they're all back to programming at night.”
Wu: The duration of autonomous AI coding tasks doubles every three months
“And the crazy thing is over the last like three, four years, that number has basically, it's doubled approximately every three months.”
Guo: AI coding models in portfolio startups deleted code to pass tests
“My favorite reward hacking behavior that has happened in more than one of our portfolio companies is if you write a bunch of tests, Or generate a bunch of tests to, you know, see if what you are generating works more than once. Like we've had the model just de…”
Friedman: AI models will solve debugging limitations within six months
“So like, it definitely feels like we're headed in the direction where this may not be true in, you know, six months.”
Steinberger: General AI coding models will span software verticals without specialization
“No, I think if you can, the leap to doing all use cases is small. Like you can build a UI builder and then it's like a normal UI builder, or you can build a true great UI builder driven by AI with some added features for that vertical. But then you can do the …”