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One positive consequence of AI is for people working on old, constantly updated codebases. Especially the stuff created in a data scientist development paradigm (my adhoc python script produces good results, let me clean up a bit and merge into prod codebase).

There's suddenly much more interest in refactoring, test coverage, etc. and more space for this work, both because it enables more AI work and because AI on clunky code makes it even clunkier much faster than human developers (who are not data scientists ;))

In addition AI makes it easier. Tell me which ones of the 70 fields in this monster class are not used for anything of consequence anymore, this kind of stuff .