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Developers grapple with shipping AI code they don't understand
Original: Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
A discussion among software engineers is asking how teams should handle deploying AI-generated code that nobody on the team fully understands. The question touches on code review, maintenance risk, and accountability when AI tools write large portions of a codebase. Commenters are debating whether this is a new normal for engineering or an unmanageable liability as AI coding assistants become standard practice.
Why now: AI coding assistants are now widely used, raising urgent concerns about comprehension, accountability and maintainability of machine-written code
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