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@scottrl, I'd need to hear a specific reference to believe this claim. I don't know of any company that has given full responsibility to code development to AI. AI greatly accelerates code development. In addition, developing code to enable a user to utilize a mouse without sliding their hand on a pad can, in no way, be equated to a machine gun and bourbon in a car.

The potential errors in over reliance on AI is real, but hysterical exaggeration only weakens the need for caution.

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- An AI-powered coding tool wiped out a software company’s database, then apologized for a ‘catastrophic failure on my part’ https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it-a-catastrophic-failure/
- Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-coding-assistants-chase-phantoms-destroy-real-user-data/
- "It deleted our production database without permission": Bill Gates called it — coding is too complex to replace software engineers with AI https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/it-deleted-our-production-database-without-permission-bill-gates-called-it-coding-is-too-complex-to-replace-software-engineers-with-ai