Has AI ruined coding?

Key Takeaways

AI has made coding a lot worse. It is confidently wrong. It doesn't just fail at a task. It does all of this really complicated stuff to seem like it's correct, and it will confidently tell you things that are just blatantly false. I'm not sure about you, but I have very often caught myself reading an explanation that AI has given me or reading a few things that it has done in the code and going like, "That makes no sense at all, and you just told me this is the fix to the problem or this is the solution or this is the way that we should go with it." I wasn't a software engineer and I hadn't had 10-plus years of coding in the past actually making these mistakes on my own, there's no way that I would have been able to catch that. So, what I really notice is that when I'm writing code with AI, well, most of the time it goes well and I can get something done very quickly. As soon as a big issue does occur, it becomes an absolute nightmare to try to fix it. To the point where sometimes I've restarted entire projects completely from the beginning because it's actually easier just to remake them than it is to try to figure out this convoluted mess that this AI has designed.