Worth Reading: On AI Coding and Its Discontents

A lot of AI-coding enthusiasts are making claims along the lines of " AI coding tools are like compilers; you supply intent, they translate it into code, and who ever looked at the machine-code output? " Unfortunately, there is a bit of a gap between hope and reality; traditional compilers were always deterministic, and are (after decades of development and bug-fixing) pretty much bug-free. AI…