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Paul Dix comments on the impressive capability of AI to generate and refine 1 million lines of code into reliable software, highlighting the potential of AI in complex software development.

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# A quote from Paul Dix Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/26/paul-dix/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/26/paul-dix/) 26th August 2026 > The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing\. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because they had an oracle to compare against, so it was simple to go from one language to another”, but I think that’s selling this entire thing short\. If you can build a verification system and give proper direction, AI can produce a highly complex, highly sophisticated piece of software and it can continue to refine it until it just works\. —[Paul Dix](https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming),The end of programming

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