Yacine MTB: AI won't automate software engineering soon — figuring out what to build is the bottleneck
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-28
Yacine MTB, a prominent AI-tooling developer, says that despite being "one of the world's best vibe coders," he rarely checks in code — the real time sink is figuring out what is worth building. He argues AI research and software engineering won't be automated the way mathematics may be anytime soon (likely over a year away), because in many tasks understanding what you actually want is the bottleneck.
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