So currently there are people who are buying grey market peptides[1], marked "not for human consumption" and injecting themselves with them based on dubious anecdotes and vibes, to make their skin clearer, build muscle mass, and so on.

Are they are all suddenly turning into zombies? No. Do they have any real idea what that is going to do to their body a few years down the line? Also no. Could it be catastrophic? Maybe!

I think about this when I think about how violently much of the industry has pivoted into AI being the primary generator of code in the last 6ish months. AI is the peptide, your codebase[2] is the body. Literally no one knows how maintainable this approach is, because there simply hasn't been enough time to find out. It could be fine. It could be a complete mess, with your entire engineering team falling asleep at the wheel, lulled into thinking they understand what is being built when they don't, completely impotent to fix or maintain it once the LLM is no longer able to.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr268m5pxro

[2] Well, _their_ codebase. I've stopped doing it with my own personal codebases, unless I genuinely don't care about maintainability or longevity