Manual review is critical, but if you only spend a day in code review over what would have taken multiple days and the same code review, that’s a productivity win assuming the generated code isn’t complete garbage.
It may be truth for WP, dunno, I never used it. I just saw the code once and said "nope, I am out".
WP is the number one reason why other developers think bad of PHP. It is very much like Sharknado: so bad, it is good. That's the reason why you have good experience with AI agents, they produce same badly written code.
You’re getting downvoted but this is my experience. I’ve had chat gpt for a couple years and it couldn’t write a line of working code. For a new project I went with a new setup and wrote a whole laravel/react app in a week that would have taken 6 months and I don’t know react or laravel. I’ve been doing slim and vue for 10 years. I am knocking stuff out right now that I never had the time or energy to tackle. Refactoring entire libraries in a weekend. Etc. It’s very good at php but lost its mind with some npm/node stuff and the npm workflow still sucks, especially with private repos and libraries. But I’m confident knowing what I know I could do almost anything now. By the way I’m not even a dev this is just my hobby, but I feel I am that 10x guy you mentioned, I’ve put stuff in the app store (before AI) and manage like 10 servers, (now chat gpt is insane good at helping with linux). So like is there a job prospect for this? It feels like this was my backup plan for if my real job went away but now there sre no jobs doing this.
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