autonomous coding

Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger · 4h I'm at a small conference where people are showing off things like computational chemistry tools they vibe coded in an hour or two to accelerate their research. I read blog posts from people whose GPT 5.3 Codex instances now code for eight or more hours on their own now. Then I look on X and I see people absolutely sure that the only use of AI is creating ten second videos that they claim are ugly (even if they aren't ugly). As William Gibson said, "the future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed." (You can tell William Gibson was already an AI decades ago because he used em-dashes in his writing.)