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AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

The Register · Thomas Claburn · last updated

Freelance coders take solace: while AI models can perform a lot of the real-world coding tasks that companies contract out, they do so less effectively than a human.

At least that was the case two months ago, when researchers with Alabama-based engineering consultancy PeopleTec set out to compare how four LLMs performed on freelance coding jobs.

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