Superhuman coding has not happened. I work with Codex and Claude daily. They're fantastic for script coding, config issues, and simple projects. They lose the plot on bigger things to this day. Just last night, Astra decided to cheat to present the illusion of progress until I called its BS. And I was so looking forward to finally working with the AGI. Humans remain the muse, the common sense, and the manager of making these things productive. And as much as I agree with Carmack's suggestion to not become the out of touch Kung Fu Master: x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/209844326221… working with them on projects daily gives me a pretty tactical read on what they can and cannot do IMO. That's how I reconcile it. But let's say it had. That's just 1 of 20 events that have to happen in sequence to hit the jackpot here.

I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements. "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0] "Great! I think Microsoft has been a good parent company for gaming IPs"[1] By sheer coincidence, John Carmack is peddling machine generated code.[2] [0] web.archive.org/web/20081003111457/http…... [1] x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/130806985791… [2] 80.lv/articles/john-carmack-s-agi-start…...

Seems to me e.g. John Carmack is a proponent of using LLMs for writing code. x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/209844326221… Carmack's attitude is less "LLMs stick suck at code" and more "LLMs are getting better at many programming skills".