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Yeah for me, I use AI with Rust and a suite of 1000 tests in my codebase. I also use CoPilot VS code plugin mostly, which as far as I can tell heavily weights toward local code around it and often it just writing code based on my other code. I've found AI to be a good macro debugger too, as macro debugging tools are severely lacking in most ecosystems.

But when I see people using these AI tools to write JavaScript of Python code wholesale from scratch, that's a huge question mark for me. Because how?? How are you sure that this thing works? How are you sure when you update it won't break? Indeed the answer seems to be "We don't know why it works, we can't tell you under which conditions it will break, we can't give you any performance guarantees because we didn't test or design for those, we can't give you any security guarantees because we don't know what security is and why that's important."

People forgot we're out here trying to do software engineering, not software generation. Eternal September is upon us.