Debate: are software engineering tasks already intelligence-saturated?

Cognition CEO Russell Kaplan says internal data shows many software engineering tasks are "intelligence-saturated," shifting competition to cost and speed; investor Matt Slotnick counters that such judgments are biased by heavy harnesses, arguing Opus 4.6 shows the bottleneck lies in the harness, not the model.

2026-10-19 ~ 2026-10-19 · 2 related posts

• Cognition: many software engineering tasks are now 'intelligence saturated'—cost and speed are all that matter — FlyOnTheWalsh · 2026-10-19
• Investor: Opus 4.6 already proved the bottleneck is the harness, not the model — matt_slotnick · 2026-10-19