[n_ary]

I see a fraudulent benefit in this case. When these non-tech people go into public talks or anything, they can suddenly claim “oh, I use AI to write 80% of my code” and voila! No one will ask whether their responsibility is to write code or do any engineering, simply being able to give some surface level claims makes them credible enough and feed the hype while appearing cool.

It also gives investors more confidence to shower them with money when needed, as non-tech people are also doing AI coding and they are super agile!

When Msft CEO claims that 80% code written by AI, there is a 50% doubt, but when someone adds that, yeah so I have done 150 PRs, now it feels more concrete and real.

[ghiculescu]

Author here. We don't have (or want) any investors. I encourage PMs to code because it's good for the business. Otherwise I wouldn't do it.

I wrote about this years before we started doing AI-backed-coding: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/opening-the-codebase-up-to..., so some of the details are no longer correct, but the philosophy is the same.