Ouch, this makes the headline not sinply inaccurate. It makes the headline false.
Having generated code is nothing new. Multiple companies I worked for in the past had a lot of automatically generated code for multiple things (from automatically generating tests for API contracts to automatically generating glue code between different modules/services).
Callong that "AI" borders on the level of malicious ignorance.
To be fair, Hanlon's razor suggests it was most likely written by someone who _would_ conflate software with AI. Though knowing the reward structures in '''journalism''', it could still be deliberate.