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Well, the stall he sets out is about 'generative models' generally:

"In the future, what role will these generative models play in assisting a programmer or mathematician?"

I think the fact that we've other generative models that eg. can write descriptive variable names is a fair rebuttal to his criticism of alphacodes poor variable names.

Deepmind fine tuned it on competition code, not on well documented production code, so I think it's shallow to get hung up on it's lack of good variable names (for example).