Yacine MTB: AI automation of software engineering is likely more than a year out
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-28
Yacine MTB argues AI research and software engineering won't be automated the way mathematics might be anytime soon — likely more than a year out. His reasoning: these tasks involve too much context-dependence, and the bottleneck is often understanding what you actually want rather than execution itself.
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