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Much like self-driving cars being better than drunk, incompetent, or texting human drivers, AI software is generally better than the garbage churned out by code monkeys who don't care or cheap lowest bidder outsourcers.

It's nowhere near the quality of hand-crafted expert human code, but that requires a hand-crafting expert human engineer and takes a long time.

I predict that the latter will be reserved for the highest value, longest lived, or special (high performance, high security) parts of systems.



> It's nowhere near the quality of hand-crafted expert human code

As of June 25th, 2026. Read your comment in four years, and tell me you believe what you've posted.

Maybe one year? Four months?


This is definitely a dated comment, yes. I believe it is true today and probably will be for a while, but probably not forever.

The spec is the new code. I expect that in 5 years I will rarely write actual code. I will write specs and herd bots.




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