Programming by hand also empircally leads to quite a lot of bugs. The actual calculus for whether these tools are worth it to solve a given problem is as functi

Programming by hand also empircally leads to quite a lot of bugs. The actual calculus for whether these tools are worth it to solve a given problem is as function of how much time it takes to reach the desired level of quality compared to writing by hand. I struggle to see why "they hallucinate and aren't deterministic" is enough to conclude that it doesn't ever end up being worth it when there's no alternative that doesn't also produce some bugs. I don't particularly like these tools, but I also can't deny that for some things I'm genuinely able to get to the results I want faster with them than without. Yes, some people will use them to produce low quality software, but in my experience it's mostly people who already would have been producing low quality software as well, just at a much slower pace. Having a higher volume of low quality software is a problem, but it's distinct from the claim that the tools not ever being useful in producing high quality software. It's possible that from reading my rebuttals you'll think I'm one of the people using these tools to produce low quality software, but it's not clear how to falsify that claim. If that's the conclusion you'd draw, then you probably weren't really open to considering rebuttals in the first place though.