Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
To get to the present, he took a detour through the past. He acknowledged the milestones of AlexNet and ImageNet in 2012, the Transformer architecture for machine learning in 2017, the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, and the emergence of reasoning and coding agents in 2024. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Norvig went on to cite Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds' changing attitude toward AI.
- ▪To get to the present, he took a detour through the past.
- ▪He acknowledged the milestones of AlexNet and ImageNet in 2012, the Transformer architecture for machine learning in 2017, the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, and the emergence of reasoning and coding agents in 2024.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Norvig went on to cite Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds' changing attitude toward AI.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); ai and ml Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents Thomas Claburn Thomas Claburn AI AND SOFTWARE REPORTER Published wed 30 Sep 2026 // 20:05 UTC READ MORE Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else 3 minutes ago AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit 5 hours ago OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic…
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