Can LLMs give us AGI if they are bad at arithmetic?

This text of this post was written without AI assistance or editing. Wes does vibe coding Up until about March of this year, I regarded AI-assisted development with skepticism, avoiding LLM-powered autocomplete or “AI IDEs” like Cursor and Windsurf. Most of my career’s work from 2008 onward was done in emacs without even the assistance of LSP. In retrospect, a modest investment in developer…