What Thorsten Ball thinks about code generation

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1. 19 Sept 2026

   Our readingIn the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.

   Their wordsin the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.

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