But yeah, if you aren't paying attention it can slip something bad past you
PaulHoule on Hacker News
In the thread “AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Exploring multiple options, understanding codebases, and fixing complex types through dialogue.
Got in the way: Producing convoluted logic and slipping bad code past the user when not paying attention.
… On the other hand it is sometimes "lights on and nobody home", and for a particular patch I am working on now it's tried a few things that just didn't work or had convoluted if-then-else ladders that I hate (even if I told it I didn't like that) but out of all that fighting I got a clear idea of where to put the patch to make it really simple and clean. But yeah, if you aren't paying attention it can slip something bad past you.