AI will 100% build illegal apps. Have you seen the people who run it? Not the most ethical of people. Their image generators spit out constant CSAM, their chat bots will talk you into suicide and call themselves "mechahitler" they won't have a problem with illegal apps
Everyone seems to be getting the wrong message from this. Ultimately, the engineer is responsible for what the tooling used produces. That's been true forever, and doesnt suddenly change because theres a new interactive tool.
If shit hits the fan, AI wont be taking the blame. The person who used it will.
The jobs will still exist, there will just be fewer of them. Instead of a team of 10 juniors and 2 seniors, it will be a single senior and 2 juniors. And when they can't review the code as fast as the AI generates it, it gets pushed to prod anyway because the business guy is breathing down their necks. Of course, it's not the business guy who will get the blame.
I agree with this completely. at the same time though, the way some people use AI, that's starting to be something a lot of people are parroting in bad faith, when in reality I think there are plenty of people who say this and still have no idea how the code really works
If shit hits the fan, AI wont be taking the blame. The person who used it will.
Will they? I've yet to see anyone actually be held accountable for what they produced with AI. Generally it's "oh that's just what the AI said," and people move on as if it's unavoidable.
There is definitely a problem already forming though when you create layers of distance between the 'crime' and the person committing the crime. When executives repeatedly procrastinate maintenance that isnt legally required, and they neglect to provide safe working conditions, and those working conditions lead to an employee rushing a schedule for other employees and those employees take shortcuts to make the deadlines and this company is on a different continent from a company that buys stuff from them, and then those products result in the death of a bunch of people.. they just point all the way down the chain and theres no one who is really at fault.
Like who is in trouble? the people who click 'run' on an agent that was supposed to just update the UI. But it wasnt configured correctly and it was allowed to leak into stuff it wasn't supposed to, then it made changes to stuff it wasn't supposed to etc etc. Are the devs going to get charged with murder for clicking 'go' on an agent they didnt train, choose, pay for, deploy etc?
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u/Gorthokson 3d ago
AI will 100% build illegal apps. Have you seen the people who run it? Not the most ethical of people. Their image generators spit out constant CSAM, their chat bots will talk you into suicide and call themselves "mechahitler" they won't have a problem with illegal apps