I didn't want to influence the discussion with my thoughts, and I thank the monks for sharing their thoughts.

My observations are that AI is pretty good at analysis, really not that good at writing code. And by writing code, I mean

• A good description of how it's going to solve the problem;
• A well structured piece of code that actually solves the problem; and
• Comments in the code that explain each ste.

If you get back a bunch of code that's a mess, a mish-mish of things that were found on the net, without any comments, that's not worth much.

And I think 'vibe coding' is a joke. I'd like to see a demo of an AI being told to write some code, and actually have it produce something that a) works properly, and b) produces readable, useful code.