Is traditional coding dead? That’s the question many developers have been asking themselves this week following the launch of powerful new coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Is traditional coding dead? That’s the question many developers have been asking themselves this week following the launch of powerful new coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
They are very powerful tools
A few days ago I put Codex on the task of translating a library from Rust to Java, and it nailed it.
Admittedly, it wasn’t a very complex codebase, but it was still pretty incredible to see, especially considering that for an human it would have been a tedious work of likely 1/2 full days, while Codex completed it in about ~20 minutes, almost perfectly.
I remember that 5 years ago, automatic translation from one language to another was only a thing of dreams and few tech demos.
I'm pretty convinced now that a lot of the work I've done over the years on cross language bindings could be done by Codex in just a few minutes, or, better yet, by translating the source library directly.
That said it is still no match for an experienced human dev, so I strongly doubt traditional coding is dead, but I think we are going to see more single dev+agent teams going forward, where the dev focuses on complex tasks while the agent can write the glue and maintain the boilerplate.