AI's are not the programmers on themselves, lol.

There's plenty of evidence for AIs writing code, including their OWN code. Here's a snippet from Cognitive Carbon's Jan 15th column:

https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/claude-45-for-coding-is-like-hunting

I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted programming for more than a year now; for the last 9 months or so, I’ve used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 to do most of the work.

While the rest of the world argues with ChatGPT and gets annoyed with its confident sounding hallucinations, or fiddles with creating cool looking images...those of us that use AI for coding on a daily basis see an entirely different future taking place right in front of us.

In this domain...AI is dominant. Even the experts now say so; in fact, the team that is creating the software for “Claude Code” at Anthropic now uses Claude Code to write 100% of the new code for Claude.

Claude Code...is writing itself.

And man… it’s scary good.

Claude Sonnet 3.7, which I used for six months, was already impressively good, but at times I had to force it to redo work that it did poorly, or coach it with suggestions about how to solve certain problems that it got stuck on (”use this tool, look here for the data, write the code like this, use that as an example”)

Interestingly, it still did excellent work and interacted with me conversationally and jovially (as a junior programmer would have), while giving me compliments for my brilliant approaches to problem solutions at times. Sometimes even replying to me in Portuguese, for some reason.

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