Meanwhile no one actually building software that I have been talking to is using these tools seriously for anything that they will admit to, anyways
More and more when I see people who are strongly pro-AI code and "vibe coding" I find they are either formerly devs that moved into management and don't write much code anymore, or people who have almost no dev experience at all and are absolutely not qualified to comment on the value of the code generation abilities of LLMs
When I talk to people whose job is majority about writing code, they aren't using AI tools much. Except the occasional junior dev who doesn't have much of a clue
These tools have some value, maybe. But it's nowhere near the hype would suggest
We have the same security restrictions for AI tools that weren’t created by us.
Without including that measurement there exist some rather large perverse incentives.
E.g. a few days ago I wanted to verify if a rebuilt DB table matched the original. So we built a query with autocomplete
SELECT ... FROM newtable n JOIN oldtable o ON ... WHERE n.field1<> o.field1 OR
and now we start autocompleting field comparisons and it nicely keeps generating similar code.
Until: n.field11<> o.field10
Wait? Why 10 instead of 11?