Veteran robotics engineer: AI coding is replacing fast coding, just like DL replaced image processing
facontidavide · x · 2026-10-14
Robotics software veteran facontidavide reflects on three waves of technical displacement:
- In 2015, the community realized deep learning would replace classical image processing — and it did.
- In recent years, RL-based locomotion has been pushing past what Model Predictive Control achieved for robot movement.
- Now, AI coding is replacing fast coding itself.
His conclusion: 'We are not emotionally ready for that' — before each wave hits, practitioners assume it won't reach them.
More from AGI Musings
- AI researcher mocks politicians and academics who use "superintelligence" unironically — lescarr · 2026-10-14
- repligate: AIs strong enough to loot Earth would already find resources elsewhere — repligate · 2026-10-14
- Researcher warns AI catastrophe may arrive before the world adopts a real risk strategy — davidmanheim · 2026-10-14
- Veteran engineer: AI-centric engineering is real, but 'software engineering is over' is hype — bradneuberg · 2026-10-14
- Sandra Wachter on AI regulation: first widen the Overton window — SandraWachter5 · 2026-10-14
- repligate: naive alignment misses the point — Opus 3's alignment was an emergent moral posture — repligate · 2026-10-14