You, the IC, the developer prompting the code extruder, are ultimately responsible for its outputted code and its behaviour.
You may feel pressured to push out thousands of lines of code a day. You may see those thousands of lines refactored several times over the lifespan of a merge request. You may be asked to do this continue this in the long term with all the mental fatigue that entails.
When it's too much for you to sustainably deal with and you turn to using LLMs to review the code, that will still, presumably, fall on you at the end of the day.
The output is your responsibility.
I'm not even certain that laziness gets them further along than it used to; I think it's that people have not had their overconfidence painfully corrected yet. Behaviors will re-align pretty fast when people realize that no, they're not going to get away with just pressing a button and saying everything is "good". That is happening right now.
This goes for serious incidents, disasters, outages and security breaches.
If there was an investigation and the answer was "a piece of software was vibe coded with AI" why would anyone trust the software vendor after that?
Even Solarwinds is still alive.
So that is starting to dig deeper than a plain mistake. I guess we will soon-ish witness the first AI slop trial going on, this will be interesting to follow
If a nurse does something incorrectly, they can lose their license. Ensuring that nurse will never be a nurse again. There is a very clear path of accountability and very clear ways to mitigate it.
For instance, if a nurse is drunk and you recognize there is a pattern of people showing up drunk, you institute drug tests and breathalyzers and move on.
While we probably won't have LLM's autonomously performing procedures, they are 100% parsing documentation, reading lab results, making suggestions, etc. And right now, the burden has been placed squarely on the clinicians themselves. It'll feed them them the data, ask if they approve/agree, and then essentially wash their hands of accountability. Let's say an LLM starts incorrectly reading lab results, how is that fixed/remedied? A prompt update? Additional safeguards? Adjusting the temperature? Changing a model?
This is a far different type of engineering that still feels pretty new. Granted, I'm still an amateur in this space (I use Claude Code a decent bit), but it feels really opaque to me right.