I did an analysis on the code I'm currently working on pre-AI and post-AI. There is no appreciable difference in implementation code size before and after, but the total LoC has grown substantially from having a lot more test code.
So you're right. Without AI the average lazy developer would write 50k implementation lines of code and 0 lines of test code, and now they have 450k lines of test code in addition to their 50k of implementation code. It might not be great test code, but I know which I'd still rather have (hint: the tests).
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I did an analysis on the code I'm currently working on pre-AI and post-AI. There is no appreciable difference in implementation code size before and after, but the total LoC has grown substantially from having a lot more test code.
So you're right. Without AI the average lazy developer would write 50k implementation lines of code and 0 lines of test code, and now they have 450k lines of test code in addition to their 50k of implementation code. It might not be great test code, but I know which I'd still rather have (hint: the tests).