a couple days ago i asked a buddy (he's an exceptionally good SWE) who was raving about AI coding if he could ask it to write some code that would match or beat the 170 LoC uWrap [0] in size, output quality, or perf. i asked him to do it soonish, since i was sure the lib was likely to be in most training sets very soon, if not already.
all models but one failed completely. only grok made a version that was several orders of magnitude slower than the lib which uWrap bests by 10x, which he considered a small win. but when he checked what it used as a reference, it turned out that uWrap is what it had pulled from the web. so it very poorly regurgitated my lib.
i guess i dont need look for a new career just yet.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583478