Debugging. Lots of debugging. It will be interesting when the researchers look back in 5-10 years to determine which was easier/better - trying to understand generated code vs generating code one understands.

If a functional reasoning layer is added to the current lookup level, “do you want fries with that?” might be in their “doing”. If this doesn’t appear in a timely fashion, de-slopping code will be their lot.

Interesting question. I work on AI for document processing, and I have found the same dynamic: generating a first pass is easy, but the real engineering goes into the verification layer.

Edge cases you never think to test: that's where AI output breaks. I deal with this daily in document processing.

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