Werner Vogels introduced in his closing speech at re:Invent this year the term “Verification Debt” and my stomach sank, knowing that term is going to define our roles in the future. The tool (AI) isn’t going to get the blame in the future, you are. You are going to spend so much time verifying what it has generated is correct, the gains of using an AI, may start to be less beneficial than we think.
I think what’s interesting about this take, is when they use AI to generate things like new taxes, tax codes and tax laws. The levels of loopery will be insane.
Werner Vogels introduced in his closing speech at re:Invent this year the term “Verification Debt” and my stomach sank, knowing that term is going to define our roles in the future. The tool (AI) isn’t going to get the blame in the future, you are. You are going to spend so much time verifying what it has generated is correct, the gains of using an AI, may start to be less beneficial than we think.