Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…) | AI Reality Check

Within technology circles, there's a lot of buzz right now about a recent essay written by a professional programmer and entrepreneur named Lars Fay. It opens with the following description of the current state of affairs of AI-driven software development. I'm going to read here. This workflow takes many shapes at this point, but in general, it is a process where someone defines the project's requirements, generates a plan, and then pulls the slot machine lever over and over, iterating and reiterating with often multiple agent instances until it's done, all the while putting a growing distance between the orchestrator and the code that is being generated and committed.

Now this new approach to computer programming has thrown the industry into a frenzy of excitement and I really do mean excitement. Let me read you a real quote from an essay that a developer posted just a couple months ago. And I'm reading here. What a fantastic time to be alive.

With Claude Code, I have become, if I do say so myself, a 10x developer. Sometimes it feels like 100x. I find it all thrilling and amazing. It's all intoxicating to watch Claude code work, to ask it to do something that I know would take a week. Or to have it figure out some complex bug that I would have taken three days to debug is almost too much to believe.

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