There appears to be consensus that these models generate code very quickly, relative to a person typing, and that the code emitted varies from totally wrong to

There appears to be consensus that these models generate code very quickly, relative to a person typing, and that the code emitted varies from totally wrong to subtly wrong. Thus they're going to significantly increase the amount of code in production and that code is going to tend to be of the subtly wrong kind. This is my non-web-dev impression of the javascript world. Loads of code out there, basically all of it wrong in a bunch of places. Reasoning by analogy with that, one should expect the reliability of computer systems to go downhill from here. The interesting question for a professional software dev is where one can add value in a world in which essentially anyone can produce large amounts of code that sometimes works. My hunch is that it's going to be really important that the languages and libraries in use are totally solid as they're essentially being fuzz tested continually.