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A Brief History… and a Future AI Event Horizon for Software Engineers

Soon, we may all have the ability to include a near (or above!) human-level intelligence coder running right on our own devices.

8 min readJan 15, 2025
My fully completed Advent of Code stars for 2024. The first time I’ve ever gotten all 50 stars.

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***Insanity Update March 5th, 2025

Welp, my timeline is already too slow! A few days ago Anthropic announced their Claude 3.7, which okay, hasn’t totally broken anything on my timeline here, but just today Apple did: releasing their M3 Ultra, which exceeded my guess of 256GB RAM for 2025 and can be configured to 512GB RAM which enables running of models of up to 600 billion parameters… you can run almost the full deepseek model locally!!!!

The Truth…

I have a confession. In December 2024, I fully completed “Advent of Code”, or “AoC” in Rust, with all 50 challenge stars. How did I do it? Nearly entirely using careful prompting with Claude 3.5 Sonnet! To be honest, I was extremely impressed by Claude’s ability…

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Chris Frewin
Chris Frewin

Written by Chris Frewin

https://wheelscreener.com https://vannacharm.com https://chrisfrew.in 👨‍💻 Software Engineer 🏠 Austria/USA 🍺 Homebrewer ⛷🏃‍ 🚴 Outdoorsman

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