There are still significant limitations, no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does. But I'm finding that these Gemini models are finally able to replace searches and stackoverflow for a lot of my day-to-day programming.
I find this sentiment increasingly worrisome. It's entirely clear that every last human will be beaten on code design in the upcoming years (I am not going to argue if it's 1 or 5 years away, who cares?)
I wished people would just stop holding on to what amounts to nothing, and think and talk more about what can be done in a new world. We need good ideas and I think this could be a place to advance them.
Citation needed. In fact, I think this pretty clearly hits the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" bar.
Last month I had a staff member design and build a distributed system that would be far beyond their capabilities without AI assistance. As a business owner this allows me to reduce the dependency and power of the senior devs.