Hihi! Bold claims you're making.
- I'm not running Windows
- I use google only when I have to, and even then never the AI features
- I don't even have a smartphone 😂
So, with whatever weird adhoms you're trying to preemptively throw around out of the way, let's address what actual points you've made.
A small dev team does not have 100s of entry level coders that can write tedious and simple code for them.
As has been mentioned, many, many small teams have functioned perfectly fine without GenAI for quite a while. So, here in real programming, we have these cool things called "libraries". The gist of them is that if everyone keeps writing the same boilerplate code with very few differences, that could instead be put into a little chunk of code that your program imports. Then, the program relies on the library to handle the tedious and simple code, while it can develop the high level application! Easy!
It's not like you using AI on this project is taking jobs away from people.
It's a good thing nobody has made the argument that Stoat specifically using GenAI will take jobs away from people.
Now, you've made a lot of claims about audited AI usage. Surely, if you're advocating for it, there must be some good reason? Clearly, it must massively speed up developer productivity, since they no longer have to write the equivalent of "100s of entry level coders" of "tedious and simple code", right? Well, here in the real world, usage of AI actually slows down developers[1], despite their thinking it would speed them up. This should make intuitive sense as well, given that anyone who has reviewed others' code knows that understanding code is more difficult if you haven't written it. Thus, if you want developers to understand the code that they are submitting (something that should be absolutely MANDATORY for a project), having GenAI create code is going to take longer than them just. writing the code themselves.
Look, sorry if this whole thing comes off as patronizing, but as someone who has actually been working with AI for... about a decade, now, it upsets me when people spout talking points they don't actually know anything about.