Fathom founder: AI nails known patterns, produces slop on novel work
andreisavu · x · 2026-08-27
Jack Ellis (Fathom founder): "Coding is solved. I haven't written a single line of code since 2025. But software engineering is more alive than ever." His take: if what you're building matches a known pattern, AI delivers perfection; but as soon as you get into deeply complex, novel work, it produces slop.
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