[Terr_]

I suspect the important sticking point will be reliability. The "incentive" exists because of an high degree of trust, so much so that "junior dev thinks it's a compiler bug" is a kind of joke.

If compilers had significant non-deterministic error rates with no reliable fix, that would probably be a rather different timeline.

[kibwen]

Yes, that's why I say it's a terrible analogy, but we live in a crap world with a fetish for waste and no incentive for quality, so I fear for a future where every night we just have the server farm spin up a thousand batch jobs to regenerate the entire codebase from scratch and pick out the first candidate that passes today's test suite.