Lol seriously there are deterministic commands I can run that give me correct and verified boilerplate to stand up APIs. Why would I trust some probabilistic analysis of all code found online (while dissipating ungodly amounts of energy and water) to do it instead?

When I heard people talk about writing specs in natural language, I want to ask them if they want fuzzy results too. Like 10x10=20 or having you account debited from x+e money where x is what you ask and e is any real number. Or having your smoke detector interpreting it’s sensor fuzzily too.

Absolutely.

My point is that I don't think AI can meaningfully output code that would be useful beyond that, because that code is not available in its training data.

Whenever I see people going on about how AI made then super productive, the only thing I ask myself is "My brother in Christ, what the fuck are you even coding?"