> is this the kind of code I should expect?

Sadly yes. But it "works", for some definition of working. We all know it's going to be a maintenance nightmare seen the gigantic amount of code and projects now being generated ad infinitum. As someone commented in this thread: it can one-shot an app showing restaurant locations on a map and put a green icon if they're open. But don't except good code, secure code, performant code and certainly not "maintainable code".

By definition, unless the AIs can maintain that code, nothing is maintainable anymore: the reason being the sheer volume. Humans who could properly review and maintain code (and that's not many) are already outnumbered.

And as more and more become "prompt engineers" and are convinced that there's no need to learn anything anymore besides becoming a prompt engineer, the amount of generated code is only going to grow exponentially.

So to me it is the kind of code you should expect. It's not perfect. But it more or less works. And thankfully it shouldn't get worse with future models.

What we now need is tools, tools and more tools: to help keep these things on tracks. If we ever to get some peace of mind about the correctness of this unreviewable generate code, we'll need to automate things like theorem provers and code coverage (which are still nowhere to be seen).

And just like all these models are running on Linux and QEMU and Docker (dev container) and heavily using projects like ripgrep (Claude Code insist on having ripgrep installed), I'm pretty sure all these tools these models rely on and shall rely on to produce acceptable results are going to be, very mostly, written by humans.

I don't know how to put it nicely: an app showing green icon next to open restaurants on a map ain't exactly software to help lift off a rocket or to pilot a MRI machine.

BTW: yup, I do have and use Claude Code. Color me both impressed and horrified by the "working" amount un unmaintainable mess it can spout. Everybody who understands something about software maintenance should be horrified.