Comment by jedwards1211

for example, I got fed up with the old form library we were using because it wasn't capable of checking field names/paths and field value types at compile time and I kept having unexpected runtime errors. I wrote a replacement form library that can deeply typecheck all of that stuff.

If I had turned an AI loose against the original codebase, I think it would have just churned away copying the existing patterns and debugging any runtime errors that result. I don't think an AI would have ever voluntarily told me "this form library is costing time and effort, we should replace it with such and such instead"