Technology

In 2025, AIs function more like employees. Coding AIs increasingly look like autonomous agents rather than mere assistants: taking instructions via Slack or Teams and making substantial code changes on their own, sometimes saving hours or even days.

They already lost me, not even a minute in.

It's still a graphing calculator. It still sucks at writing code. It still breaks things when it modifies its own code. It's still terrible at writing unit tests, and any programmer who'd let it write substantial production and test code is like a lawyer who'd send the front desk attendant to argue in court.

It also has no idea about office politics, individual personalities, corporate pathology, or anything else a human programmer realistically has to know. Partly because it has anterograde amnesia.

So, since the authors screwed that up, my guess is the rest of the article is equally useless and maybe worse.