> What makes you so certain that this 'way of developing software' cannot eventually be understood and practiced by AI?
That doesn't make it solved though. I also take issue with specifically "software engineering is a solved problem". Even Boris from Anthropic said it =( I thought he'd be the one to understand more deeply.
If we translate the criticism charitably "solving" anything is pretty aggressive with regard to the long tail of nuance and care and effort and mastery and such. I think that's what we should focus on. When we proclaim that a discipline that people have spent large parts of their lives mastering is "solved" it doesnt' feel so great. That doesn't prove otherwise, but at least let's get to the root of the meaning. I don't think it's solved. If we understand that software is really about solving human problems through technology, within real-life constraints, then AI isn't very good at that. It doesn't have "taste" is the soundbite. It is the root cause of why AI slop is called AI slop.
I suspect part of the taste problem is that the average person…has no taste (which is why so much AI slop is being shared to begin with). I also see no reason to believe that this isn’t a problem to be fixed, rather than some inherit limitation of generative AI.
That's fair but maybe it's a dangling carrot. Human taste will always be just out of reach for most, robots included. Avante-garde had it right all along.