New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities? 5 by orange_puff | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems like we are in the midst of another AI hype cycle. Many people are calling the current coding models an "inflection point", where now the capabilities are so high that future model growth will be explosive. I have heard serious people, like economics writer Noah Smith, make this argument [0]. But it's not just the commentariat. I have seen very serious people in software engineering and tech talk about the ways in which their coding habits have change drastically. Benchmarks [1] alone don't seem to capture everything, although there have been jumps in the agentic sections, so maybe they actually do. My question is; what explains these big jumps in capabilities that many serious people seem to be noticing all at once? Is it simply that we have thrown enough data and compute at the models, or instead, are labs perhaps fine-tuning models to get rea...