Comment I call bullshit (Score 5, Interesting) 66
I recently used an agentic AI to push through an undocumented USB stack (I'm talking to you TinyUSB) while trying to implement a proprietary and poorly documented protocol as a custom driver. The AI was able to apply some reversed engineered logic I assume it learned from scraping open source projects.
The whole time I had to treat it like a hostile four-year-old brushing their teeth. "Brush up, now down, no you're not done yet, up again, then down, now move to the next set." And then I had to rewrite everything since it was 200% the size it needed to be. It did save me some time, but 50% sounds like an ass fact (a fact pulled from your ass). Oh wait, they probably left the bloat in, which exactly aligns with how my code would look if I didn't rewrite the whole thing to be maintainable.
Um, I meant I'm calling bullshit on anyone still claiming AI generated code will be full of security vulnerabilities. This is absolutely not the case if the AI is driven by someone competent. The old rules still apply - you get what you pay for. If the engineer is good, the code will be good no matter the tools.