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The AI-written-code debate asks the wrong question

Every "is it bad that AI wrote most of my app" thread misses the point. After reviewing a pile of AI-built Rails apps, the percentage barely correlates with quality. What correlates: whether the founder decided which zones AI was allowed to touch.

I split a codebase into trust zones. Low-stakes edges (CRUD, admin): let the agent run. High-stakes paths (money, auth, data deletion): a human owns them. AI optimizes for one thing: Making what you asked for run. Not making it safe when the input is hostile.

So a 90%-AI codebase with the dangerous zones owned by a human beats a 40%-AI one where nobody drew the lines.

Curious how other founders here decide what to hand off vs keep. (Full writeup on my site, happy to link if useful.)

on June 11, 2026