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Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?

A beginner programmer on Hacker News asks whether AI code verification is becoming the main bottleneck, citing fears of AI-generated code silently breaking and lacking long-term reliability, and requests community stories and advice on verification practices before shipping.

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| |||||||||||| 2 points by | I am a beginner in programming and honestly I have been using AI to code a lot but I am scared to ship because of the countless stories of AI code silently breaking, AI code not being reliable long term and all that.Please share your stories with me how you handle AI code reliability and verification and what I can do to be more confident before I ship | ||||||||||| |

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