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Code is not something that you consume, it is something that you build.
You want a house made of cardboard because it's affordable? Sure, just don't start pretending like it's an actual house, and don't try to rent, sell, or lend it to anyone.
Maybe you'll have a different opinion about code when it's almost all disposable.
Yes some places still make bespoke $30 steak hamburgers. But also most people eat mass produced, less expensive McD's
Yes, but the hand crafted artisinal version I wrote? You can copy that infinitly, already.
There's no adds value copy pasting infinite slop burgers.
And if the burgers are made by people who just grab random items to try to make it look like a burger, whether or not it is edible, no one would.
AI code is unreliable, unsafe, and worst of all, has no basis of even basic intelligence. I'd trust more code produced by a monkey than by an AI. Trusting AI code is like trusting a very realistic drawing of a tunnel and running into it while knowing that it's a drawing, because "it looks like a real tunnel so it must work like one". AI code is not code, it's keywords scrambled together to look like code.