Does more model intelligence still matter for coding past a threshold?
the_juan_1 · reddit · 2026-11-05
The author argues that past a certain threshold, AI model intelligence stops mattering for writing code — software engineering will instead be about integrating coding agents into the SDLC, and better models will stop improving a given software factory.
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