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Just the other evening there was a group of teenagers in the park across the road from my house... playing french boulles, chatting and playing Beatles songs and other great music loudly. There is hope.
Except... it does produce solid code in many scenarios. A lot of the time we are just applying the same patterns and tools to a specific problem. If you understand the problem, agents can and are producing quality code.
I do a lot with orchestrating cloud infra, provisioning and deprovisioning workflows, lifecycle management, updating CMDBs, access management, deployment automation, auditing configurations, and some APIs in front. The code is boring, mostly glue. The agents nail it quite consistently, especially with some guidance.
I do know what I want out of it, and that is deterministic quality code to solve specific business problems, so that we don't have people (or their agents) running amok.
You probably install all sorts of unverified crap on your laptop already, and since you are aware of this risk, you are in a good position to mitigate it. Sandboxes are a thing.