LLMs recently optimized integer multiplication and matrix multiplication beyond the known theoretical limits.
If you tell them to optimize and give them evals and targets, they will optimize. And they will be more thorough and diligent about it than you.
We're all going to have to cope with the fact that LLMs are now better at programming than us. It is professional irresponsibility to not use an LLM in 2026.
> We're all going to have to cope with the fact that LLMs are now better at programming than us. It is professional irresponsibility to not use an LLM in 2026.
As a categorical generalisation, this is absurd. Much depends on much, and the devil is in the details. In certain domains, this might be true, though the word "better" is doing a lot of work there. It is certainly not true in all domains; my consulting practice, where code is written by hand, is thriving, and my clients are mostly AI companies who have discovered the limits of "vibe coding" in this particular area.
If you tell them to optimize and give them evals and targets, they will optimize. And they will be more thorough and diligent about it than you.
We're all going to have to cope with the fact that LLMs are now better at programming than us. It is professional irresponsibility to not use an LLM in 2026.
As a categorical generalisation, this is absurd. Much depends on much, and the devil is in the details. In certain domains, this might be true, though the word "better" is doing a lot of work there. It is certainly not true in all domains; my consulting practice, where code is written by hand, is thriving, and my clients are mostly AI companies who have discovered the limits of "vibe coding" in this particular area.