Daniel Lemire to give Sedgewick Lecture on programming in the era of AI
lemire · x · 2026-10-12
Researcher Daniel Lemire previewed his upcoming Sedgewick Lecture, 'Programming in the Era of AI,' and asked for input ahead of the talk to a young audience. His abstract argues that tools like Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot have led top developers to largely stop hand-coding; frontier models already show superhuman performance on benchmarks like SWE-bench Verified; and open-source models make these capabilities cheap. He plans to cover practical agentic components, benchmarks as guiding constraints, context management, and orchestrating parallel agents, focusing on realistic, immediately applicable practices.
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