To me the biggest gotcha with AI code is that the bugs are not “normal”.
When reviewing human code I focus on specific parts because I know that there are parts where a person will just not make a bug (unless very junior).
AI on the other hand, will not do an off-by-one mistake, but it will happily just delete perfectly working code for no obvious reason. Or monkey patch a dependency because it missed a config flag. Or generally fail in a very novel and creative way.
The effort it takes to review AI code is much greater. And this is in a code base I am deeply familiar with.
Imo the future lies in a solid core programs with powerful plugin frameworks that expect all plugins to be code that was never read.
When reviewing human code I focus on specific parts because I know that there are parts where a person will just not make a bug (unless very junior).
AI on the other hand, will not do an off-by-one mistake, but it will happily just delete perfectly working code for no obvious reason. Or monkey patch a dependency because it missed a config flag. Or generally fail in a very novel and creative way.
The effort it takes to review AI code is much greater. And this is in a code base I am deeply familiar with.
Imo the future lies in a solid core programs with powerful plugin frameworks that expect all plugins to be code that was never read.