The problem with AI-generated code starts when it works.
Imagine I need to find your name in a phone book.
I could start on page one and go through every name until I find you.
That works.
Or I could look at the first letter of your name and find it faster.
Or open the phone book in the middle.
If your name isn’t in that first half, I can throw that half away.
Then I keep throwing half away until I find you.
Every approach works.
Every approach finds the same answer.
But some take a lot longer.
Now give the phone book to AI.
It might start on page one.
It might even go through the whole phone book 10 times just to find your name.
The scary part is, it still finds you.
You might ask: so what if AI is a little slow?
With 100 names, maybe it doesn’t matter.
With 100 million names, it does.
A correct answer can hide a terrible solution.
AI is making it easier and easier to write code.
But can you tell a good solution from a bad one?
When your program is a complete mess but it does its job.
