It's like everyone who came on board to AI because "they can write code now!" thinks the primary argument the rest of us have is "no it can't"
So I'll be the one to say it: yes AI can write code. I believe you. They can write code. It compiles. It even passes the tests that the AI also wrote.
Unfortunately the code they write is shit. It's automated technical debt with built in landmines. You think people coding in C causes issues? Wait'll you see what LLM code produced on massive scale does
Eniko Fox
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2026-09-23 17:39:08 UTC
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