{"id":10154,"date":"2026-04-11T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-code-tearing-through-corporations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:45:00","slug":"ai-code-tearing-through-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-code-tearing-through-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Corporations are rapidly embracing AI to churn out mountains of code.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outwardly, this is presented as a revolution in productivity. But a behind the scenes look in The New York Times<\/em><\/a> paints a slightly different, and somewhat comic, picture. Beleaguered programmers are being saddled with more code than what they know what to do with, while their employers struggle to find the best way to get them to check all the AI\u2019s hastily written work.<\/p>\n

One financial services company, for example, saw its coding output increase tenfold after embracing the popular AI tool Cursor \u2014 creating an epic backlog of one million lines of code that needs to be reviewed, according to Joni Klippert, CEO of the security startup StackHawk, which works with the financial firm.<\/p>\n

And the code glut isn\u2019t something that can be ignored. Left unchecked, bad code \u2014 regardless of whether it\u2019s AI-generated or human-written \u2014 can gum up software and cause security flaws<\/a>. Amazon and Meta both recently experienced disruptions<\/a> after AI tools took unauthorized actions<\/a>, and those are just the ones we\u2019ve heard about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sheer amount of code being delivered, and the increase in vulnerabilities, is something they can\u2019t keep up with,\u201d Klippert told the NYT<\/em>. The accelerated output created a \u201clot of stress\u201d in other departments, like sales and marketing support, she added.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re now at an interesting inflection point of AI\u2019s impact in the workplace. It\u2019s been used to justify whittling down workforces across the globe, with one report finding that AI was cited in the announcements of more than 54,000 layoffs last year. This year included major names in tech: Jack Dorsey\u2019s fintech firm Block<\/a> and software giant Atlassian<\/a> laid off thousands of employees while touting pivots to AI.<\/p>\n

Yet, at the same time that jobs are being eliminated, AI is also creating more work that would be best done by another human. Someone has to test the AI code, and traditionally it\u2019d be the guy who wrote it \u2014 but nowadays they\u2019re too busy prompting an AI agent. Who\u2019s supposed to pick up the slack is unclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are not enough application security engineers on the planet to satisfy what just American companies need,\u201d Joe Sullivan, an adviser to Costanoa Ventures, told the NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Moreover, AI may actually be making programmers\u2019 jobs harder. Software engineers have admitted<\/a> that being expected to produce more code while having to constantly supervise their AI tools is accelerating them towards burnout<\/a> \u2014 a phenomenon that\u2019s been documented in emerging research into the topic. One ongoing study<\/a> dubbed this mental health toll AI \u201cbrain fry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Companies are still grappling with how to address the code glut. \u201cThe blessing and the curse is that now everyone inside your company becomes a coder,\u201d Michele Catasta, the president and head of AI at the startup Replit, told the NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sachin Kamdar of the AI agent startup Elvix took a hardline approach: all code must be reviewed by a human, because it\u2019d be harder to fix down\u00a0the line if no one understood what the AI cooked up in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just going to break something, and they\u2019re not going to know why it broke,\u201d he told the NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Another solution is throwing more AI at the problem. Anthropic and OpenAI have released AI agents designed to review code. And in December, Cursor, the provider of the much hyped AI coding tool, bought the startup Graphite, which builds an AI code reviewing platform.<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Instructs Staff to Welcome AI Sloplords<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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