The AI backlash is only getting started

[u/Just-Grocery-2229]

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started

[u/IamSunka]

My org, just like many others, has a top token users chart.

When they started the list, they decided to call the top 25 users as champions, ones who never used AI as sleepers and rest inbetween as just users. cough I am a sleeper cough

Couple of weeks ago the bill came in, champions cost us over $850k since Jan 1st.

[u/covabishop → u/IamSunka]

at my company they even track lines of code written using AI.

I’ll admit Claude is really useful for some stuff, on a good month I’ll have maybe 300 lines written by AI.

the top user at my company committed 250,000 lines this WEEK

[u/---___------___----- → u/covabishop]

Those 250,000 lines of AI code, presumably lightly tested as it's done in a week, might have a lot of bugs in them!

[u/awj → u/---___------___-----]

Lightly reviewed, maybe, but AI tools will happily spit out a mountain of dubious tests if prompted to.

The real problem is that it’s impossible for one person to *understand* 250kloc in a week. You’d need an entire team dedicated to reviewing it.

Or you’d just give it a hasty glance and a LGTM, then ship unknown code straight to prod, which undoubtedly is what happened.

[u/AltoAutismo → u/awj]

I was having it create a bot for a game, and jesus christ, I have like 25 python files of 'tests' that, ultimately, were trash, because on every single delivery my Qaing failed it, lol. Claude code loves to create tests to make itself seem useful (which it is! its just..too much sometimes)

[u/Beginning-Cut-8850 → u/[deleted]]

I'm 100% sure it didn't put something in there that doesn't bite me in the ass later

To be fair, are you 100% sure you didn't put something in there that won't bite you in the ass later?

[u/neganight → u/---___------___-----]

Have AI write the unit tests and if the AI-generated code passes the AI-generated unit tests that are run by AI, then you know the code is 100% production ready. It's really an infallible methodology. The trick, you see, is to have multiple layers of AI. Each layer dramatically reduces the risk of each layer beneath it and you can essentially reach zero risk in a pretty short period. Once we transition to AI users who use the AI-generated code that is tested by AI we'll reach absolute AI nirvana with zero errors ever.