yes you can absolutely sink time and lose efficiency
i encounter it many times, i have it generate large amount of code that seemingly does what i asked it to do
but then it takes many revisions to finally arrive at edge-case-free state
I also end up having to read through the code generated to build a mental model of what the app is doing and to gate keep future revisions.
But what makes all this worthwhile is that it saves my employer a lot of money.
For example: We've generated a large enterprise react application for roughly $100 USD within a month using all the available code gen tools out there. I'm talking the entire stack: backend, frontend, documentation.
Trying to pull that off with a real team? it would cost 1000x minimum and roughly 3 quarters, maybe the entire year.
A business won't care about the "art" side of things. They just see they can generate software at almost 99% discount.
I'm very worried about our software engineering jobs beyond 2024. It's going to massively shrink and wages are going to reflect this new cost saving that code gen provides.