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It died before AI came around and today's coding agents are somewhere upwards of twice as competent as whatever the state of the art of automatic coding was in 2020. 8I

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A good chunk of that was one-time gains from shifting GPU and memory architectures to better match what LLMs need at scale as well as some algorithmic improvements. Most of the low-hanging architecture optimization has already been harvested. We'll certainly have more algorithmic gains but the consensus is they'll generally be smaller and less frequent.

There's always a chance we'll have some dramatic gains far larger than DeepSeek's optimizations a year ago, but it hasn't happened again yet at even that scale. It would be nice but I certainly wouldn't count on it.

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