AI actually has the advantage here in my experience. Yes, you can do AI wrong and tell it to just change code, write no documentation, provide no notes on the changes, and not write any tests. But you would be dumb to do it that way.
As it stands now you can set AI to do actual software development with documentation, notes, reasoning for changes, tests, and so on. It isn’t exactly easy to do this, a novice to AI and software development definitely wouldn’t set it up this way, but it isn’t what the tech can really do. There is a lot to be done in using different AI to write tests and code (well, don’t let an AI who can see the code to write the tests, or you could just get a bunch of change detector crap), but in general it mostly turns out that all the things SWEs can do to improve their work works on AI also.
