[bruce511]

It's certainly going to be fun seeing this all play out over the next 10 years.

In some ways it's like taking over a project written by someone else that's "80% done". You're locked into their design, get to analyze all that code 1 bug report at a time, get frustrated by obvious mistakes, confused (and mislead) when they relied on some clever side effect.

The quality of life in this maintainence mode depends enormously on the quality of the original coder. "Why did you choose this over that?" Is a common question I have for earlier devs. The AI answer is the least satisfying "it seemed like a good probability at the time".

IME writing the app from scratch to "done" is 10% of the lifecycle of the code. It's the other 90%, spanning over decades, where the quality (or lack thereof) reveals itself.

Personally I'm finding AI useful as a tool. Would I want to be the human fixing AI bugs? (From human bug reports which are pretty vague?) I'm not so sure about that.