// Hacker Noon · 3 March 2026

AI Code Generation: Cheap to Create, Expensive to Fix

AI made code generation cheap. But it also made silent breakage cheap. Subtle logic removals. Relaxed validations. Expensive cloud calls. Secrets slipping into logs. Most of this doesn’t get caught while generating code; it gets discovered in PR review, or worse, in production.

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