This is kind of like saying a kid can never become a better programmer than the average of his teachers.
IMHO, the reasons not to use AI are social, not logical.
IMHO, the reasons not to use AI are social, not logical.
I'm not against using AI by any means, but I know what to use it for: for stuff where I can only do a worse than half the population because I can't be bothered to learn it properly. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'd say I'm definitely better at my niche than 50% of the people. There are plenty of other niches where I'm not.
By leaving the busywork for the drones, this frees up time for the mind to solve the interesting and unsolved problems.
If you feed it only good code, we'd expect a better result, but currently we're feeding it average code. The cost to evaluate code quality for the huge data set is too high.
You can do some basic checks like "does it actually compile", but for the most part you'd really need to go out and do manual categorization, which would be brutally expensive.