[jmfldn]

Exactly. This article, and many like it, are pure clickbait.

Passing LC tests is obviously something such a system would excel at. We're talking well-defined algorithms with a wealth of training data. There's a universe of difference between this and building a whole system. I don't even think these large language models, at any scale, replace engineers. It's the wrong approach. A useful tool? Sure.

I'm not arguing for my specialness as a software engineer, but the day it can process requirements, speak to stakeholders, build and deploy and maintain an entire system etc, is the day we have AGI. Snippets of code is the most trivial part of the job.

For what it's worth, I believe we will get there, but via a different route.