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Chief Scientist Google DeepMind, Jeff Dean: "coding is dead. agents write it, review it, deploy it. humans just approve" multi-agent workflows just wrote an operating system from a single prompt. it runs Doom "could you design an airplane in 5 days instead of years? with a swarm of agents... show more
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This is insane. Definitely watching the full thing🤝

the thing that makes the argument compelling is not the strength of the claims. it's the honesty about their limits

jeff dean can say coding is dead, hes earned it. but my claude code still asks which ticket to pick first. deciding what to build is still the job. writing boilerplate was never the hard part.

agents writing an OS that runs doom is wild, saved

Deploying isn't the hard part anymore, deciding what's worth deploying is. Jeff Dean's right about who writes the code, but 'humans just approve' is still doing the heaviest lifting in that loop.

And yet, RI state can't process tax refund directly into your bank account, as of 2024 FY return info, from a friend. It's no point having an intelligent system, you need to coordinate with human run systems. So, please get real.
