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I'm sympathetic to the idea that if you're doing anything large or complex, a sufficiently detailed spec can boil down to writing pseudo-code in English, and that verification and optimization of generated code for anything non-trivial is still quite difficult.
I do find the recent "SWE is over!!!" boosterism pretty annoying as well.
However, I will say that if your criticism is on the level of getting syntax errors, and you aren't doing anything extremely out of distribution (Brainfuck, Malbolge, things like that), there is probably something you are doing wrong.
Provide the agent with tests (or have it write them itself with oversight) and I would be extremely surprised if you are still getting non-compiling code from any of the large models/harnesses released in the last few months.
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