Scaling agents - by Chris Hua - Optimism of the will
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You might imagine modern farming is like peasants, but with tractors.
You might imagine modern farming is like peasants, but with tractors. It’s not. These machines that would be unrecognizable to someone from a few dozen years ago. Software engineering is about to undergo the same transformation. Opus 4.5 is an unbelievable tool in the hands of a competent driver, and it’s rapidly changing how frontier labs and companies write code. “Coding,” in the sense of humans writing programming languages, is on its last legs. There are unsolved edge cases, to be sure, but the end is nigh. Software engineering, though—the practice of executing ideas into outputs—will…
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