My honest, biggest, fear is that AI coding does not, in the long run, drive up bugs and security issues. That is the only tangible piece of data we have to point to as a counter argument to this tool. If not for that businesses will not care about consistency, only that the agents can read and understand it.

It really is a very visible demonstration of human faultiness.

A reasonable engineering approach would have been an interesting new technology with open discussion and assessment and expansion of exploration. Instead, we get hype cycles and hyperbole claims and lies primarily driven and publicized and repeated as market marketing and investor marketing and an industry driven by money and investment rather than technology and reasonably explorative and increasing usage.

It's sad and tragic. But not surprising. It's a consequence of human psyche, social constructs and market and society system structure.

When I hear my colleague does a presentation differently for internal towards developers with more reasonable AI takes and a different one for external which basically practically joins the AI hype instead of voicing boundaries, it's pretty sad that it can't be honest communication throughout and be understood as such.

I don't see it as an isolated fault of "corporate leadership" as in of development factories/teams. It's a broad issue, from the AI companies, press hype, industry hype, to then corporate and broader industry leadership eating it up and implementing and expecting marketing and hype claims.

My colleague who didn't ask nor describe his changes now generates descriptions and code comments through AI and it doesn't improve anything. It's verbose, imprecise, confusing, and irritating.

I wonder if and how much communication reduced with my other colleagues. I guess probably a bit where they now ask AI (first). But not significantly, in my team, luckily. We still regularly talk. But maybe it's on a path of reduction right now. I would find it sad and bad as well.

It's definitely cope, because in a few years, all the capabilities of AI coding and security will have advanced. Heck, just 3 years ago, plenty of programmers were saying AI was so bad that people had no reason to worry about it taking their jobs. Four years ago, programmers were openly laughing about AI being useless and was never going to be widely used.

And now here we are.