> have the machine generate code and have the human review it The best characterization of such massive language models I've seen is "world class bullshitters"

> have the machine generate code and have the human review it The best characterization of such massive language models I've seen is "world class bullshitters": they are very good at producing output that superficially looks plausible, but neither know nor care whether what they're saying has any relationship to the truth. This is virtually guaranteed to make such code reviews very frustrating, and of course AlphaCode & co have no capability of explaining why they wrote a certain line. I can't see this having much of a role in a high quality code base, but I suspect the sort of management which currently would offshore coding to the lowest bidder would be quite enamored of it.