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My impression is that the SOTA agents (Claude Code or Codex) can now, if given a sufficiently detailed specification and sufficient tools to validate their work, provide code that fully satisfies that spec for the vast majority of moderately long coding tasks now. This is a big jump in capabilities and obviously very powerful.
This does come with a lot of caveats that imo make the claims of 100% AI written code misleading at best; the creation of "sufficiently detailed" specs (which is famously difficult) fed to the agent and validation of the generated code is still dependent on engineering skill, and one-shotted code will generally be of worse quality than code written for the same purpose hand-crafted by a skilled engineer.
In the short term I think this is actually bullish for SWE, coding agent output is still bottlenecked by engineering skill and I don't believe we've yet saturated the demand for software. In the mid-long term it's unclear if there will still be value in having engineers in the loop, but imo end-to-end automation of software engineering is/requires AGI so my job isn't high up on my list of concerns in that scenario.
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