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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago

OP is obviously ignorant of how much tooling has already helped write boiler plate code.

Besides AI code is actually one of the things that’s harder to detect, compared to prose.

And all that said, AI is doing an amazing job writing a lot of the boilerplate TDD tests etc. To pretend otherwise is to ignore facts.

AI can actually write great code, but it needs an incredibly amount of tests wrapped around and a strict architecture that it’s forced to stick to. Yes, it’s far too happy sprinkling magic constants and repeat code, so it needs a considerable amount of support to clean that up … but it’s still vastly faster to write good code with an AI held on a short leash than it is to write good code by hand.