SMRTR ProgrammingMay 17, 2026Hacker News

Are humans still good enough for coding?

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AI is now discovering decades-old vulnerabilities in kernels, QEMU, and major OS platforms faster than human reviewers ever could. This signals a fundamental shift: software complexity has outpaced human comprehension, and experienced engineers who embrace AI will dramatically outperform those who don't. The future may push programming languages away from human readability entirely toward machine-optimized representations.

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