Yes
Claude is worse than me in meaningful ways at the kind of code I need to write, but it’s still doing almost all my coding because after 4.6 it’s smart enough to understand when I explain what program it should have written
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almost all my coding
In the thread “The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines”, replying to this comment
Helped: Explaining what program it should have written.
Got in the way: Worse than human in meaningful ways.
… The important context I think people may miss is, this does not require AI to be 10x or 5x or even 1x as good as a human programmer. Claude is worse than me in meaningful ways at the kind of code I need to write, but it’s still doing almost all my coding because after 4.6 it’s smart enough to understand when I explain what program it should have written.