[soulofmischief]

I'm confident that they can. This isn't a new idea. Something like this would be a walk in the park for Opus 4.5 in the right harness.

Of course it likely still needs a skilled pair of eyes and a steady hand to keep it on track or keep things performant, but it's an iterative process. I've already built my own ASCII rendering engines in the past, and have recently built one with a coding model, and there was no friction.

[teiferer]

> skilled pair of eyes and a steady hand

But that's key here.

"A hammer and a chisel can build a 6ft wooden sculpture by themselves just fine .. as long as guided by a skilled pair of eyes and steady hands"

[soulofmischief]

Ok, but if you have a wooden hammer and chisel, and a steel hammer and chisel, choosing the wooden one is an artisanal choice, not a practical one. These tools enable an amount of velocity I've never had before, both in research and development.