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AI generation when writing software is a false economy. You are replacing writing code with code review. Code review is harder and requires you to already have an understanding of the domain which often means that you would’ve even able to write it yourself to begin with. If you code gen something because you don’t know how to write it yourself, you by definition cannot review it without going though an effort equivalent to writing it yourself in the first place.

Unless of course you don’t care about code review and so doom yourself into treating software like magical incantations that break randomly for no perceivable reason; but no good mage would do that, surely.

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in reply to Mary​:icosahedron:

I've heard some use AI to generate boring boilerplate code. I'd argue that then your framework, tooling or architectute is broken in the first place, as it forces you to write boilerplate code.