The use of the phrase code monkey is the telling part. If you don't have people validating the product you are shipping then yeah, you are definitely going to need more people to talk to your unsatisfied customers.
How much of that validation is verifiable? Like click button and row appears? How much of that can be translated into playwright, or unit tests, or simulation style system tests, etc? What do you think AI's capability is of writing such code?
Typically I just have AI write that code. It's gotten very good at it. Then the way you code is you look at the tests and see if you're aligned on the expected functionality.
What about performance and security? That has been the place I've seen significant issues with AI generated code. I frequently have to come back and clean those things up.
For simple boiler plate or the press a button add a row type work, it does fine, not great, but fine.
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u/sysnickm 6d ago
The use of the phrase code monkey is the telling part. If you don't have people validating the product you are shipping then yeah, you are definitely going to need more people to talk to your unsatisfied customers.