I just reviewed my first PR with mostly AI generated code and it felt like I was having a stroke. Asked the author and he said it was, and that it was getting to the point that generating it was more work than just writing it himself lol.

This interaction has been worrying. Even with someone who is capable, well intentioned, and experienced the code, while it worked, was slop. It spit out the right results, but there were bizarre and unnecessary try/excepts, error messages wholly being thrown away meaning debugging in the future would be hell, and complete ignorance of the data structures the code was operating on meaning data validation was completely random and mostly superfluous, as well as being overly permissive.

Also lol at looking for type errors without ever using a single typed object.

Anyway. RIP. I keep wanting to try them out but I'm so inundated I can't and what I get sent as outputs of them make me want to try them less and less.