The Cost of Any Change

I have seen a lot of buzz lately about defects introduced to working code by AI. Some benchmarks show AI creating 1.7x more issues than humans. This is the worst AI code generation, and I expect this gap to close. Even if AI is much better than a human, any change to a codebase has the possibility of side effects . When looking at the cost of any code change to a system, the highest cost was often…