I’ve cleaned up after outsourced code and it has a different flavor to AI rockstar code. In the former, you can see that the developer only care about the current ticket. After every merge, it’s a flurry of bug fixes, because they always break something unrelated. And that’s due to bad design, you will see a lot of copy pasted code and unused code.

As for the AI code, the most defining elements are unneeded complexity and low understanding of the abstraction involved. When you need a 10 lines functions, the AI will happily write an entire module because that’s how a fully implemented domain is like. But it’s not part of the requirements. As for the low understanding, you will see strange code, which are not fully antipattern, but are definitely not needed as it solves issue that the platform/library/framework doesn’t have or already have a solution for.