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Comment by nvme0n1p1

No it doesn't. It produces working, but sloppy code, and it's able to do so because of deterministic test suites that run quickly and give a reliable score of the result, letting an agentic loop iteratively improve its output. But we have no test suites that answer "is this code maintainable" or "does this feature make sense in the context of our business", so AI still fails those tests.

If we had a way to write a test suite for English that could reliably answer "is this sentence useful to my target audience" or "does this paragraph make any goddamn sense", you might be able to run some sort of agentic loop to approach good writing, but so far we don't.

parent nvme0n1p1 7 days ago

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