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  • If you first have to write comprehensive unit/integration tests, then have a model spray code at them until it passes, that isn’t useful. If you spend that much time writing perfect tests, you’ve already written probably twice the code of just the solution and reasonable tests.

    Also you have an unmaintainable codebase that could be a hairball of different code snippets slapped together with dubious copyright.

    Until they hit real AGI this is just fancy auto complete. With the hype they may dissuade a whole generation of software engineers picking a career today. If they don’t actually make it to AGI it will take a long time to recover and humans who actually know how to fix AI slop will make bank.