I don't believe the junior devs on my team even run the code they are generating, let alone read it. Feeling like I'm doing 5x the work reviewing and testing that the person submitting has.
I have been looking at some way to reduce the burden on me and put it back on the developer submitting. So far I’ve been asking them to split their wall of code PRs down in to multiple smaller ones, and soon I’ll probably ask them to demo to me the feature working because I can’t assume they did this themselves.
I'd consider shipping LLM generated code without review risky. Far riskier than shipping human-generated code without review.
But it's arguably faster in the short run. Also cheaper.
So we have a risk vs speed to market / near term cost situation. Or in other words, a risk vs gain situation.
If you want higher gains, you typically accept more risk. Technically it's a weird decision to ship something that might break, that you don't understand. But depending on the business making that decision, their situation and strategy, it can absolutely make sense.
How to balance revenue, costs and risks is pretty much what companies do. So that's how I think about this kind of stuff. Is it a stupid risk to take for questionable gains in most situations? I'd say so. But it's not my call, and I don't have all the information. I can imagine it making sense for some.
