12.10.2026, 23:35
As any code in a public repository on GitHub is used to train AI systems, and I've been pushing PowerBasic code to such a repository for years now, it's likely I'm partly to blame for Claude getting better, at least with PowerBasic.
It's not perfect by any means but it is improving. The trust that can be put in any piece of AI generated code should be similar to that placed with any human junior developer.
You have to test and review their code. It's also true that if you build not just an application but a system, you'll spend longer supporting and maintaining that system, that you ever did writing it in the first place.
User requirements evolve over time and you will need to amend and upgrade systems as the years pass. AI is not currently good at this activity. Users are also not good at specifying requirements either. Perhaps we should use AI to replace the users before we replace the programmersÂ
It's not perfect by any means but it is improving. The trust that can be put in any piece of AI generated code should be similar to that placed with any human junior developer.
You have to test and review their code. It's also true that if you build not just an application but a system, you'll spend longer supporting and maintaining that system, that you ever did writing it in the first place.
User requirements evolve over time and you will need to amend and upgrade systems as the years pass. AI is not currently good at this activity. Users are also not good at specifying requirements either. Perhaps we should use AI to replace the users before we replace the programmersÂ