Superintelligence is already here

By most measures, the coding agent that now writes the vast majority of lines of code I produce at my job is already much smarter than I am. It can digest an enormous codebase in mere minutes and accurately answer targeted questions about it. It can write tests, examine failures, propose fixes, and iterate until the tests pass. It can find bugs in code before they make it into production. Or it can take a description of the symptoms of an abstruse bug in production, then generate hypotheses for the root cause. It’s not always right, but it usually is, or at least points me in the right direction. And critically, it can do all of these things much, much faster than I can, by a factor of ten or a hundred or more, depending on the task.In a contest between two humans, we wouldn’t hesitate to say that the programmer who works 10 or 100 times more quickly than his peer, with similar quality, must be much smarter. People have been talking about so-called “10x engineers” for decades, and…