[abdullin]

Agreed. AI is just a tool. Letting in run the show is essentially what the vibe-coding is. It is a fun activity for prototyping, but tends to accumulate problems and tech debt at an astonishing pace.

Code, manually crafted by professionals, will almost always beat AI-driven code in quality. Yet, one has still to find such professionals and wait for them to get the job done.

I think, the right balance is somewhere in between - let tools handle the mundane parts (e.g. mechanically rewriting that legacy Progress ABL/4GL code to Kotlin), while human engineers will have fun with high-level tasks and shaping the direction of the project.