Confidence in AI-generated code is rising in lockstep with its failure rate

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If you only read the headlines this year, you’d think AI makes shipping good software easier than ever. Yet, this was the year of very public AI-coding incidents. PocketOS’ production database deletion and a Vercel AI agent shipping unverified code are just two examples of AI-authored code shipped with confidence that turned out to be

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