This is a strong article with a distracting headline. Challenge for commenters: can you discuss the content without getting caught up in the headline?
My favorite paragraph:
> The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because they had an oracle to compare against, so it was simple to go from one language to another”, but I think that’s selling this entire thing short. If you can build a verification system and give proper direction, AI can produce a highly complex, highly sophisticated piece of software and it can continue to refine it until it just works.
For me, this captures what's special about the Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol class of models. If you can reduce a problem to a clearly verifiable end state, provide the necessary context, and equip a model with the necessary tools it can usually get to a good solution.
Reducing problems to that state and designing that environment remains a skill, and one that I expect we will be paid handsomely for.
My favorite paragraph:
> The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because they had an oracle to compare against, so it was simple to go from one language to another”, but I think that’s selling this entire thing short. If you can build a verification system and give proper direction, AI can produce a highly complex, highly sophisticated piece of software and it can continue to refine it until it just works.
For me, this captures what's special about the Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol class of models. If you can reduce a problem to a clearly verifiable end state, provide the necessary context, and equip a model with the necessary tools it can usually get to a good solution.
Reducing problems to that state and designing that environment remains a skill, and one that I expect we will be paid handsomely for.