Most of what LLMs present as solutions have been around for decades, that’s how they learned them: from source material they train to.

So far, AI hasn’t surprised me with anything clever or new, mostly I’m just reminding it to follow directions, and often I’m pointing out better design patterns than what it implements on the first go around.

Above all: you don’t trust what an LLM spits out any more than you trust a $50/hr “consultant” from the local high school computer club to give you business critical software… you test it, if you have the ability you review it at the source level, line by line. But there ARE plenty of businesses out there running “at risk” with sketchier software developers than the local computer club, OF COURSE they are going to trust AI generated code further than they should.

Get the popcorn, there will be some entertaining stories about that over the coming year.