Honestly I do think now AI will master programming in a couple of years

I have been working as a programmer for years and the last couple of months were really the moment where I felt AI is starting to take over. It's at a crossover now between the junk it produced before and actually good code. The models are actually pretty good at most things we consider "senior" level such as system architecture and refactoring. The thing is that they have to be asked to do it. If they are just asked to implement features they just work with what is in front of them (although this is also starting to change with models like Fable). I don't think I'm a particular genius for asking Claude to suggest refactors and picking the ones that make sense to me. It does know by now what good code architecture looks like, it just has to remember doing it. I feel like this is a temporary point that they will pass, it might not even be a problem in terms of raw model intelligence, but rather more a harnessing problem.