Cheap to write, expensive to own

I'm sorry, but we have to talk about AI. Especially AI use in engineering teams. It's all everyone's talking about right now. It's the hype du jour. LinkedIn thought leaders won't shut up about how not using AI will put you at a disadvantage. If you're left behind even a little bit, don't be surprised when your job doesn't exist anymore mere months from now. Recently a new project saw the light of day. It looked finished, it worked, the happy path was clean, the code read well at first, it had clearly come together fast. But it only came together fast because almost none of the code was written by a human. That made me suspicious so I had a deeper look at the code and how it came to be. I looked at the security posture of the code and what I found was shocking. Mistakes that even a junior engineer wouldn't make. Endpoints where the auth could easily be bypassed, no content-type checks, no rate limits. It's easy to blame it on AI, but the fact of the matter is that the human writing…