Completely agree! People tend to forget we are non deterministic too! Yet we are able to write code fine, and fairly reliably by using tools that can help keep us fairly honest.

I think most problems with ai tend to be around can you deterministically test the thing you are asking it to do?

How many of us would never ever show work, without going to check the thing we just built first?

> can you deterministically test the thing you are asking it to do?

Of course: have it write tests first; and run them to check its work.

Works well for refactoring, but greenfield implementations still rely on a spec that is guaranteed to be incomplete, overcomplete and wrong in many ways.