Pedro Domingos: Claude is 'pretty useless' for code never written before
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-30
AI researcher Pedro Domingos argues that Claude struggles badly when the code you're trying to write has never been written before — implying current coding models excel at reproducing common patterns but fall short on genuinely novel engineering.
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