AI-generated code: What has to be true for us to trust it without looking at it?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

AI-generated code: What has to be true for us to trust it without looking at it?

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 20, 202643 min
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  • Technology

We've been thinking a lot recently about the status of code in a world where it's increasingly written and read by AI. Could the spec, for instance, become the primary way we interface with software systems? And if it does, will that mean humans no longer need to look at code at all? At present, the idea of not looking at our code seems fanciful, possibly dangerous, but even within Thoughtworks there are conflicting perspectives about whether this might change. To some, code will always remain the primary artifact; to others, its role in how we build s...

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Hello everybody, welcome to another edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. It's kind of an interesting thing. At ThoughtWorks we have this thing called the Global Tech Leadership Forum. And it's some of our technology leaders from around the world, and we get together on

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a regular basis and chat about things. And on a recent one of those, one of our guests put in the typed in chat, do we even need to see the code anymore

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if we're talking about AI? Which of course lots of people had responses to. And so I'm sitting there going, you know what, this would make a good podcast

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