Dev mocks "close to superintelligence" claim: it's an IC6-7 engineer, sometimes hungover
nathanborror · x · 2026-09-29
Developer nathanborror pushed back on Fable's claim that we're close to superintelligence. His take: current models feel more like "a pretty competent IC6-7 software engineer who occasionally doesn't look at enough code because they're hungover" — capable on local tasks but clearly falling short on full codebase understanding.
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