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Top Developers Haven't Written Code Since December Due to AI
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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel
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"Some of the top developers in the world, some of the top researchers in the world, they're not writing code. They haven't touched a line of code since December. They're not looking at a text editor where you would see lines of code. They're talking to the AI."
Patel disclosed that elite software developers and researchers have completely stopped manually coding, instead directing AI systems to build entire codebases and features through conversation alone. This represents a fundamental shift in how cutting-edge software engineering works, with top talent becoming 3x to 5x more productive by delegating all code generation to AI models.
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- People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel
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