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.

@mary
Same problem as with outsourcing:
Yes, writing the code becomes cheaper, but the effort for review and quality assurance results in overall higher costs.
@wakame @mary I’m fairly certain our clients are paying more because of the outsourcing because I just spent weeks explaining how they needed to pin the correct certififcate. Weeks.