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I don't know why people are downvoting this. It depends on what you're building.

AI build me a cost overview of xyz: works perfectly without ever looking at the code

AI build me unreal engine 5 level graphics, or a database, or infra at high scale: this will need some active steering for now :)

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They will do these prompt just fine but the result will be a near identical copy of an open source version. And it won't tell you it cloned some existing engine, because it does not know, it just pulled it out from its model. Now you have an AI slopped 3d engine or DBMS no-one cares about that will just rot.

And even for active steering, does it require reading the code? Iteration can be done on the result of the work itself, abstracting code away

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