One of the consequences of programming being a pop culture is a kind of dunning-kruger effect where programmers would often prefer to rewrite code than understand it in all its subtleties. This is obviously the Chesterton’s Fence anti-pattern at work, but let’s just go with “reading and properly understanding code you didn’t write is a hard problem.”
Ok, so now let’s talk about AI generating non-trivial code that a programmer has to understand in all of its subtleties.
Hmmm….
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