This post argues against using LLM-based AI coding agents for production code, citing four core concerns: skill atrophy, artificially low cost, prompt injections, and copyright/licensing.
- •Engineers shifted to code review roles will gradually lose hands-on coding skills as they stop writing code themselves
- •Reviewing AI-generated code at scale leads to inevitable complacency, allowing bad changes to slip through
- •Generative AI models are wildly unprofitable; current pricing is disconnected from actual training and inference costs by orders of magnitude
- •A bubble pop would force massive price hikes and usage caps, making AI-dependent workflows suddenly unviable
- •The author recommends avoiding over-dependence on AI coding agents before the market correction arrives
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