AI does not write the code. It gives detailed instructions on the code. But not detailed enough. And not on target much of the time. It takes work to use AI to code.

Only entry-level coders would need AI to code. Experienced codes do not lean nearly as much on AI.

I have codeveloped about 50k LOC in the last month or so with AI for a fun project. It absolutely writes code. Claude code with 4.6+ models replace whole team outputs from 1.5 year go.

I also have background in several non-programming hard sciences. On the softer science side, though, I increasingly thing Chomski was onto something in his views towards cognition and linguistics, and maybe simply being able to give everything a word and understand the relationship between all words and sequences of words (up to a point) is pretty darn close to actual intelligence. It may in fact be intelligence.

Anyway, as an interdisciplinary practitioner I lean towards a doom and gloom view of things lately. I think the Pope's encyclical and the Amodei piece are pretty important reading for anyone, for very different reasons.