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by xnorswap 7 days ago
Sure, but it's at the point now where it can autocomplete a fragment of a sketch of an idea into a complete working product.
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No, it isn't. It can autocomplete a fragment of a sketch of an idea into something that may or may not match the original vision and almost certainly has serious bugs which only manifest over time because they elude a cursory test.
You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced
Because Claude isn't a human the perception of it is different.

Humans can fly planes, computers too can fly planes. I'm not going to give the same leeway to a 'computer' flying a plane that I would to a human. Because we understand that humans are just that, humans. The demands placed on a computer are so very different.

What about driving a car?

Computers are already driving cars autonomously, possibly better than the average human already, and quite plausibly will eventually be better than the best human driver.

Precisely my point. Say for examples planes, trains or automobiles, humans may make way more errors than a computer does but you can bet your bottom dollar the threshold for allowing computers to autonomously control the above is way higher. Because the expectation is that if it is a computer it ought do it far better/safer.