AI-Generated Code Has No Author
Generated code does roughly what you asked, but you can't tell from reading it which decisions were deliberate and which the model just guessed. Specs are where those decisions go so they don't end up living only in the generated source.
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AI-Generated Code Has No AuthorApril 30, 2026 5 min readBeshr Kayali ReinholdssonLooking at code an LLM generated for you, you often can't really tell which of the small decisions about edge cases, error handling, and behaviour choices were deliberate and which the model just guessed at confidently or accidentally. For a throwaway script that does its job and gets deleted, none of that matters much. But for code that needs to be maintained, or that I want a colleague to be able to read in six months and contribute to, those silent decisions become the actual problem.Code someone typed by hand at least has fallbacks. You can ask the author, or read the git review thread, or lean on someone on the team who was there at the time. Code an agent generated has none of that.
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