Coding Assistants
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Finn: Modern AI coding assistants build on general data, not just code
“For example, if you want to build a coding assistant, you don't nowadays develop something specifically for coding, but you develop and you build on models that were trained on large amounts of data, not just on code.”
Yegge: Current AI coding assistant form factors are not the steady state
“The form factor that coding assistants have today is probably not the steady state that we're seeing, you know, long term. I mean, you'll, you'll always have completions and you'll always have chat and commands and so on, but I think we're going to discover a …”
Yegge: Software engineers ignoring AI coding assistants risk career obsolescence
“If you're one of those engineers, man, you better start like, you know, planning another career. Okay. Because this stuff is in the future and it's honestly, it takes some effort to actually make coding assistants work today, right? You have to, you know, just…”