Is the code AI generates actually good?

Code quality from AI tools varies based on what you're asking for:

The code for these features is often cleaner than what a rushed junior developer would write-consistent naming, proper structure, reasonable patterns.

Realistic assessment: AI code is like hiring a very fast, very consistent junior developer who has read every tutorial but built nothing in production. They follow best practices from documentation but lack the intuition that comes from debugging failures at 2 AM.

The code isn't magical, but it's also not garbage. It's a solid starting point that improves with good prompts and iteration.