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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.
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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 to consistently write code that produced fully working solutions. I’d estimate that this was the case approximately 75% of the time, with a single shot! Furthermore, a single shot with only the problem prompt itself (which in AoC format, always includes step-by-step smaller examples).
As the 25 days of Christmas go on, many of the AoC problems become increasingly non-trivial. Solutions typically require usage of advanced algorithms, such as breadth-first-search (or…
