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by leonaves 35 days ago
What's the difference between asking an AI to write you a module you never read and installing a 3rd-party module without auditing all its source code?
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If the 3rd party module is popular, its badness will affect other people too and either the module will get improved or well known workarounds/"best practices" will develop. With AI-generated code, more often than not you're the sole user.
Trust and reputation.

I would use Stripe, curl, and ffmpeg without audits, because I trust them to provide good code and to respect their API. I wouldn’t trust AI to write a Fibonacci series implementation.

The AI has no reputation to wager for my trust.

stars on github? I've wondered the same thing.