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.

@hugo @mary The worst part (besides that 240h debugging is more accurate) seems to be the "code is a mass noun" battle has been thoroughly lost, hasn't it?
@sehe honestly I'm resharing this and figured it was probably just a bit of a typo 🤷
@hugo No worries. I know you didn't write it. Yeah, no that ship hath sailed though... This "typo" is improbably common (say on reddit, stackoverflow, github, etc). As a reluctant descriptivist I will have to admit that ... program code is no longer only a mass noun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯