The best part is that AI-driven systems are fine with running even more tight loops than what a sane human would tolerate.
Eg. running full linting, testing and E2E/simulation suite after any minor change. Or generating 4 versions of PR for the same task so that the human could just pick the best one.
That sounds awful. A truly terrible and demotivating way to work and produce anything of real quality. Why are we doing this to ourselves and embracing it?
A few years ago, it would have been seen as a joke to say “the future of software development will be to have a million monkey interns banging on one million keyboards and submit a million PRs, then choose one”. Today, it’s lauded as a brilliant business and cost-saving idea.
We’re beyond doomed. The first major catastrophe caused by sloppy AI code can’t come soon enough. The sooner it happens, the better chance we have to self-correct.
This is the right way to work with generative AI, and it already is an extremely common and established practice when working with image generation.
Reviewing 4 different versions of AI code is grossly unproductive. A human co-worker can submit one version of code and usually have it accepted with a single review, no other "versions" to verify. 4 versions means you're reading 75% more code than is necessary. Multiply this across every change ever made to a code base, and you're wasting a shitload of time.
You can have another AI do that for you. I review manually for now though (summaries, not the code, as I said in another message).