Economist Pushes Back on 'Read Your AI Code': Nobody Can Review 25,000 Lines

paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-17

Economist paulnovosad argues nobody can carefully read the 5,000–25,000 lines of build code his AI-assisted projects generate and still catch subtle bugs, pushing back on Ryan ReedHill's claim that reviewing AI-written data-cleaning code is quick and lowers replication risk.

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