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> “We’re entering an era of untrustable code everywhere” - This assumes AI-generated code is inherently less trustworthy than human-written code, which isn’t obviously true.

It's not true if your humans are on controlled substances all the time, it is true if we are talking about real humans.

I've been testing coding agents on real code and I can say without a doubt that they make worse mistakes than humans.



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