"But notice how much effort is put into making sure code is correct. We have unit testing, integration testing, fuzz testing, static analysis, formal verificati

"But notice how much effort is put into making sure code is correct. We have unit testing, integration testing, fuzz testing, static analysis, formal verification, ... Games studios pay scores of people to sit around playing games all day. This is not seen in any other creative art." You would have all of these things with or without a 'clone' tool that produces approximately correct code. As long as it produces code that is in some way human readable, can be debugged using standard (above) means, and doesn't make too many mistakes, it would be fine (no worse than me writing code, at least). I think that your assumption that it would make a lot of mistakes and that they would be tedious and difficult to debug is just that, an assumption. It might be as simple as the programmer simply 'touching things up'. We haven't seen the tool, it doesn't exist, so arguing about what it would do is a moot point.