Coding agent debate: 'models are coding superintelligence' vs skeptics getting Dunning-Kruger'd
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-10-16
An AI-coding debate is circulating: zackoverflow argues agent skeptics are being Dunning-Kruger'd, claiming models trained on the internet's code beat nearly every engineer outside a 99th-percentile niche. leothecurious quotes the viral take that 'opus-5.5 is a coding superintelligence and bad code is a skill issue,' adding his own 3-year perspective evolving from GPT-4 to Opus 5.5 across robotics ML projects — and asks what engineers are still for.
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