AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

All these engineers who claim to write most code through AI - I wonder what kind of codebase that is. I keep on trying, but it always ends up producing superficially okay-looking code, but getting nuances wrong. Also fails to fix them (just changes random stuff) if pointed to said nuances.

I work on a large product with two decades of accumulated legacy, maybe that's the problem. I can see though how generating and editing a simple greenfield web frontend project could work much better, as long as actual complexity is low.

Are you using it only on massive codebases? It's much better with smaller codebases where it can put most of the code in context.

Another good use case is to use it for knowledge searching within a codebase. I find that to be incredibly useful without much context "engineering"