Second to your point, I have yet to see these engines create low level code that is required for high speed, close to hardware applications (routers, infrastructure, kernel, drivers, etc.).

Reminds me of a PHP script that is 200 lines and a Perl script that is 5 lines that does the same thing. In the end the Perl script is faster.

We may get there but by that time will there be any programmers left?

all of those little fuckers just got the outcome they were waiting for

Not because he's a great superprogrammer or anything, but simply due to experience: Reading code and complaining about it if it's not to his liking *has basically been his entire job for 25+ years*. He's also used to dealing with sycophants - though not, as far as I'm aware, with the kind of "malicious correctness" that LLMs tend to do.

(Of course, this also means that if he can't pull it off, then it's probably safe to say that nobody can.)

surely this time

it’s horrid at everything, but when torvalds pretends it’s any good for kernel work he’s trying to talk over a clear pattern of failures

I cannot name a single vibed piece of systems code that actually works with anything approaching basic reliability

torvalds’ proof that any of this shit does anything at all is that:
- it shit out a generic python UI for one of his side projects
- the corporations funding him via the Linux Foundation and keeping him fat in tokens say it works great

that’s it. that’s where all his confidence comes from. that and him being a mediocre little fucker.