Comment by boshalfoshal

I don't necessarily think you're wrong, and in general I do agree with you to an extent that this seems like self-centeted Computer Scientist/SWE hubris to think that automating programming is ~AGI.

HOWEVER there is a case to be made that software is an insanely powerful lever for many industries, especially AI. And if current AI gets good enough at software problems that it can improve its own infrastructure or even ideate new model architectures, then we would (in this hypothetical case), potentially reach an "intelligence explosion," which would (may) _actually_ yield a true, generalized intelligence.

So as a cynic, while I think the intermediary goal of many of these so-called-agi companies is just your usual SaaS automation slop because thats the easiest industry to disrupt and extract money from (and the people at these companies only really know how software works, as opposed to having knowledge of other things like chemistry, biology, etc), I also think that in theory, being a very fast and low cost programming agent is a bit more powerful than you think.