> In order for coding with LLMs to go well, there has to be more rigor, more discipline, more good engineering hard-assedness. To reiterate, the teams seeing the best results with AI were already high-discipline and high-hygiene.

hard agree. But i don't think this is sufficient. Even formal verification has its limitations.

> AI works on data. The better the data, the better the likelihood of a desirable outcome. Code is data. If you have bad code, no matter how awesome the model you let loose on it, you can't get as good a result as if you had good code to start with. This principle has been well known in AI/ML circles since the 20th century.

hard agree. but also RL data is shaped differently than SFT data that has driven the majority of AI/ML innovations since ~2000, and its where there's so much room for innovation still. e.g. ImageNet was all just hand-labeled answer pairs.

> it's not a skill issue, it's an effort/laziness/rigor issue

I'm sorry but this feels like a semantic argument - the point of "skill issue" is "you didn't put in the effort or learn the techniques"