Ofir Press: coding isn't 'solved' until agents no longer need human oversight
OfirPress · x · 2026-11-10
Pushing back on the 'coding is solved' narrative, Ofir Press argues we've merely stopped writing code ourselves. By his standard, coding is solved only when SWE, cybersec, SRE, game dev, robotics, accounting and trading all require no human monitoring. He expects far more autonomy in 20 years, but never full resolution.
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