[sillyfluke]

>asserting that AI will botch software might hold more weight with people who have already forgotten how dogshit software was pre-AI.

You're responding to an assertion with an assertion. It has been empirically proven that SOTA models can create more dogshit software than pre-AI software. It is also trivially known that the user is unable to predict when and how the AI will introduce dogshit into the software. We literally had a study posted on this forum claiming models give more accurate answers if you're mean to them. This is the shit we're dealing with. Stuff you couldn't make up in a dystopian Douglas Adams novel.

>you can encode these things into prompts

Is this satire? SOTA models randomly disobey rules in prompts all the time.

When a dev drops a production db I can warn them. If they do it multiple times during their employment I can change their roles or fire them.

I can count the number of companies providing SOTA models with the fingers on my hands. Imagine having an employee pool of only 5 savant coders with dementia to choose from to hire to your company. That's it. Thats the entire applicant pool. You can only fire one of them by hiring one of the other four to replace them with. And you can't really fire them for dropping production dbs if you can't prevent the other ones from making the same mistake. This is the current AI-first hellscape as it stands.