[thesz]

  > We’re heading for a world of terrible code that can only be maintained by extremely good coding agents and are pretty much impossible for a human to really understand.

I once figured out the algorithm of the program written in one-instruction ISA. I think the instruction was three-address subtraction.

In my opinion, you overestimate the ability of coding agents to, well, code and underestimate the ability of humans to really understand code.

The chart in the article we discuss appears to plateau if one excludes sample from 2024-07. So, we are not quite heading, we are plateauing, if I may.