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Yeah so, they used the earth-burning slop generators, fired people over it, and now rehire cheaper to fix their hot mess (which sounds like one of the most futile and infuriating task one could do). Does not sound like as much of a win as the title would lead you to believe.
Speaking as a dev, I cannot wait for my job to be fixing inane machine slop code with half the pay, sounds like a real treat.
Give it time. Right now they don't want the balance sheet to show how expensive this experiment was, but cheap devs will only get them so far. Eventually they'll need to pay someone properly to fix what the AI and the monkeys broke.
That's a very fair point. I would counter-argue that given the direction that software (and design, and writing...) has taken, even before the machine generated slop, it is unclear to me whether or not there is/will be a real incentive to properly fix things. But I know I am naturally quite pessimistic, so I hope you are right.