I suppose that's one way to look at it. But it's a sort of "bs" unproductive job, fixing up poor outcomes, and overall a less efficient scenario that experts doing it right in the first place. Worse, there was already a readily available implementation that could have been used here rather than a hand-rolled, half-baked AI output. In that respect, the code itself was pure noise and the whole activity was predominantly a waste of my time.

Sounds like outsourcing/offshoring!

> But it's a sort of "bs" unproductive job, fixing up poor outcomes, and overall a less efficient scenario that experts doing it right in the first place.

I expect this theme to repeat all the time from now on.

And also I expect it to crimp the growth of several people, because the AI solves the simplest problems and then they face an insurmountable wall trying to learn every concept at the same time when they need a small increment in code realism.

Software development will probably become extremely profitable for the people that can do it properly on the next couple of decades.