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highplainsdem

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1. And since AI produces code so fast, a lot of bad, insecure AI code is being shipped and used

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2026, 12:47 PM

May 23

because it doesn't get checked carefully enough by humans who understand coding.

One of the more recent warnings about this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221255437

Use of AI for coding is dumbing down even senior software engineers and developers, and companies are laying off their junior counterparts and not hiring recent collage graduates.

Incredibly stupid.

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Learn to Code, They Said by Alexander Dao [View all] justaprogressive May 23 OP

And since AI produces code so fast, a lot of bad, insecure AI code is being shipped and used highplainsdem May 23 #1

kick Celerity May 23 #2

When I was a children's librarian about 10 years back, intheflow May 23 #3

I hate to stick the boot in when a lot of software engineers are really down meadowlander May 23 #5

Learn to code, they said sakabatou May 23 #4