[dustingetz]

1/ this requires AGI not stochastic parrot - as the training dataset does not contain any successful instances of obtaining actual DRY at scale, so the agent will need to contribute novel research and essentially solve software engineering. It’s not 2-3 years out. And why should any result be aligned to how things work today, why not start over from the qbits and work our way up?

2/ The worst instances of coupling are between foreign systems where one is not in your control to change, or too high risk (such as banking) and prohibitively difficult to test all but the most incremental changes. So at some point you need to decide what error rate is acceptable in any tool assisted rewrite, where error rate is measured in death count and lawsuit liability.