A few months ago, I was also skeptical about all of this. However, what we are currently seeing with Claude Code, or Codex, is astonishing: they're building stuff that works and actually improves upon human-coded apps, optimizations, and research. I work in research, and my colleagues are building apps themselves for data acquisition, which usually takes months. They build them in two days. Several companies say their developers aren't coding anymore; they're asking Claude to do it. It feels like an evolution of programming, like the invention of the automatic sewing machine in 19th-century England.
There are many problems and unresolved issues right now. However, we are getting closer. In my opinion, we do not know what we have unleashed.