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by raggi 814 days ago
fwiw, the benchmark that matters really has nothing to do with authoring code.

the typing of code is the easy part even though it's a part a lot of folks are somewhat addicted to.

the things which have far more value are applying value judgements to requirements, correlating and incorporating sparse and inaccurate diagnostic information into a coherent debugging strategy, and so on. there will come a time when it can assist with these too, probably first on requirements distillation, but for more complex debugging tasks that's a novel problem solving area that we've yet to see substantial movement on.

so if you want to stave off the robots coming for you, get good at debugging hard problems, and learn to make really great use of tools that accelerate the typing out of solutions to baseline product requirements.