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Cornerstone · AI & code quality · 11 min read

Ten software engineering principles AI code keeps missing

AI writes working software surprisingly well. It also writes software that charges a customer twice and lets one user read another’s records. These are the ten places it goes wrong, and the question to ask about each.

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