Na, it’s not intentionally malicious - people are just trying to pad their resumes for new roles while unemployed or as students. I did the same (not with AI, but picking up the low hanging easy tasks to add a few lines to my CV years ago).
I’ve been to a talk from the chief test engineer at Saab talking about all the Hardware in the Loop labs they use to test at unit, integration, and full system levels. Then there’s additional testing after that phase… It’s not a CD world!
It's already required in Federal procurement and if you're seeking FDA approval, they've indicated you should prepare for it. I'd wager it reaches other regulated domains once the standards, experience, and tooling stabilize.
My first job in tech was building servers for companies when they needed more compute, physically building them from our warehouse of components, driving them to their site, and setting it up in their network.
You could get same day builds deployed on prem with the right support bundle!
https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/