Judea Pearl's AI milestone timeline: Claude Code is the first real coding agent
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-06
Turing Award laureate Judea Pearl posted his personal timeline of AI milestones:
- Vibe coding: May 2025 (Claude Code)
- Move 37 moment: July 2025 (Kimi)
- Real coding agent: December 6, 2025 (Claude Code)
- Wow moment: September 5, 2026 (Astra)
Borrowing AlphaGo's famous "Move 37" to signal machine creativity beyond human expectation, Pearl declares Claude Code the first genuine coding agent and teases a future breakthrough from Google's Astra.
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