AI-generated shovels or second-order slop?

Author: Igor Konnov Date: February 12, 2026 tl;dr: AI coding tools now reduce development costs, but they also accelerate the creation of software that appears high-quality while hiding serious correctness and reliability risks. When both code and tests are autogenerated, traditional quality checks lose their signaling value, increasing the likelihood of costly failures, outages, and liability…