Who is responsible for the software when AI takes over programming?

[Rive]

You can't tell me that human eyes are going to inspect all this AI-generated code

With the so called 'increased effectiveness' of AI-supported coding the humans assigned will need to watch over lot more and lot less familiar code than ever before.

 

[FactChecker]

With the so called 'increased effectiveness' of AI-supported coding the humans assigned will need to watch over lot more and lot less familiar code than ever before.

If you've ever seen code from MATLAB's Simulink autocode generation, you know that it is not the kind of code you would want to review. For one thing, all the variables names are automatically generated and obscure.
That being said, with diagram standards that avoid problem areas, massive programs can be generated that are very reliable -- far better than human programmers could do.

 

[Rive]

MATLAB's Simulink autocode generation

Nice, but most programmers I know (and are blessed with AI-supportive management) deals with lot less structured/organized/proper code (that lot less was one very polite description of that usual overgrown mess of legacy code mixed with haphazard addons of last minute customer requests and 'seemed to be a good idea' parts).

Somehow I doubt that MATLAB was involved in that Jeep-thing up in this topic somewhere, for example...

 

[FactChecker]

Somehow I doubt that MATLAB was involved in that Jeep-thing up in this topic somewhere, for example...

Maybe. But they are big in the auto industry and have a toolbox for designing automated driving systems.

 

[harborsparrow]

This may seem off topic, but it might be related too, since we're talking about the phenomenon of software development managers possibly skimping on best practices to save money.

Remember that Toyota fiasco where cars would accelerate no matter what the driver did? The very description of the phenomenon screamed software race condition to anyone who ever wrote real-time software. Our 2015 Honda FIT has a feature that is actually a bug, where the turn signal, once activated, blinks at least 3 times even if you hit it by accident and immediately turn it off. In heavy traffic on a freeway, that is really not funny.

Anyway, about the Toyota recall, Google now says: "A brake override system was installed in many vehicles. This system ensures that the brake pedal takes precedence over the accelerator pedal...." OF COURSE the brake should override the accelerator. To the public, Toyota continued to claim that it was a sticking physical accelerator, but I think that was a blatant lie to avoid having to admit the problem was software. Because if it was software, the drivers could not be blamed.

End of rant.