This is a thing people miss. “Oh it can generate repetitive code.”

OK, now who’s going to maintain those thousands of lines of repetitive unit tests, let alone check them for correctness? Certainly not the developer who was too lazy to write their own tests and to think about how to refactor or abstract things to avoid the repetition.

If someone’s response to a repetitive task is copy-pasting poorly-written code over and over we call them a bad engineer. If they use an AI to do the copy-paste for them that’s supposed to be better somehow?

I’ll never forget dialling into a work meeting with the corporate infosec team who we needed some guidance from.

Their rep shows up and it’s a fem-presenting person with pink cat-ear headphones.

I’m like oh fuck they sent the big guns, this is exactly who we needed to talk to. And I was right, we got exactly what we needed.