If an AI doesnt generate perfect code, if left to its devices it will at some point create a codebase big and nasty enough that it will not be able to deal with it.
I can see huge utility with AI as a guide and helper.
But not being one leg in the code myself is not something I am comfortable with. It starts feeling like management and not development. I really feel the abdication very strongly and it makes me unable and unwilling to put a hard stamp on quality. I have seen too much hallucination or half missed requirements to put that much trust in AI.
It's the same with code reviews of hard tickets. You can scroll past and just approve, but do you really understand what your colleague has built? Are you really in the driver's seat? It feels to me like YOLOing with major consequences.
I dont but, at all that people doing 20x output have any idea what they are coding. They are just pressing the yolo button and no one, not the engineer, not the AI and not management is in the driver's seat. it is a very scary time.