Not every program is written for spacecraft, and does not net the critique level of safety and efficiency as the code for the Apollo program.

I don't even know. If memory issues are your issue then using any program with safe memory embedded into it is the way to go. As most things are actually made right now. Unless you are working in legacy applications most programmers would never actually run into that many memory issues nowadays. Not that most programmers would even properly understand memory. Do you think the typical JavaScript bootcamp rookie can even differentiate when something is stored in the stack or the heap?

You are talking like every human made code have Linux Kernel levels of quality, and that's not the case, not by far.

And it doesn't need to. Not all computer programs are critically important, people be coding in lua for pico-8 in a gamejam, what's the issue for them to use AI tools for assistance?

And AI have not existed before a couple of years and our critically important programs are everywhere. Written by smart humans who are making mistakes all the time. I still do not see the anti-AI point here.

Also programming is not concrete, and AI is not sugar. If you use AI to create a fast tree structure and it works fine, it's not going to poison anything. It's probably be just the same function that the programmer would have written, just faster.

Also, not addressing the fact thar if AI is bad because it's just copying, then it's the same as the most common programming texhnique, copying code from Stack Overflow.

I have a genuine question, how many programmers do you think that code in the way you just described?