>That is exactly where the disagreement stems from. That app is a draft version that might work for a couple people. It won't scale. It won't be secure. It won't handle edge cases. It won't be flexible enough to iterate based on customer feedback.

As if startup code doesn't have the same issues pre-AI? And still they get to billions of valuations with such code.

They can always pay some beefier consultants when they absolutely have to, for scaling it up or hardening it.

That "it won't be flexible enough to iterate based on customer feedback" is more wishful thinking. It would be code like any other code, following some patterns. In fact, the architecture can be fine tuned by the human in the loop anyway - they just wont be needed 5 more humans to assist them to code it.

>Because if all they do is: What humans do, just faster... cool, useful, but not worth all the hype.

That's literally what automation in any field is. Why should be something more, as if this huge breakthrough is already taken for granted within a few years of being available?