Burkov challenges AI coding hype: name one Google-scale software built by AI in 3 years
burkov · x · 2026-09-14
ML researcher Burkov challenged the AI coding narrative: "Name a single piece of software on the scale of Google or Microsoft that was AI-built in the last 3 years—not an AI interface or an IDE for building AI." He then quipped that his post had been "invaded by illiterate morons" and to read comments at your own risk.
The jab highlights the weakest spot of the 'AI replaces engineers' story: despite all the hype around agents writing code, no large-scale critical system has been built end-to-end by AI yet. The comment section erupted.
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