Coding
Writing a solution in a programming language, as code that a machine carries out step by step. The solution itself comes from programming, which works it out and states what a correct result is. AI has largely taken over producing code. Programming stays with people, who also check the code against the solution and the correct result.
Where AI saves time
…success saves a lot of time. Code saves the least. AI gets it wrong more often, and coding tasks are short. Outside work, advice on health, money or shopping is the most common use, and it saves fewer hours per conversation than office work.1 At work, AI now…
The price of trusting AI agents
…that. In studies, the gain is smaller than it feels. Notes written by people raised coding agents' success by about 4%, and notes the agents wrote for themselves lowered it.4 Research suggests that length has a price of its own. When instructions pile up, models…
AI underdogs
…Spark Open comes with them, so .3 , stays closed.3 It is sold only through a paid coding subscription, under which Meta, by default, trains on the code its users write.4 That closed model, in its Muse Wonder Full version, is 15th on Artificial Analysis.5 No…