Frontier Models Start Helping Senior Devs Find Bugs
Purple-Programmer-7 · reddit · 2026-07-12
The author observes that new frontier models (like mythos/fable, sol) seem to have crossed the threshold from being "like a helpful junior programmer" to discovering previously overlooked gaps in brownfield scenarios.
While emphasizing these models aren't perfect and still require human review, the overall feeling is that they are approaching the capability level he has been waiting for. He invites perspectives from developers with 10 or 20 years of experience.
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