[afro88]

The bet that he misses, which a lot of companies are starting to make or at least think about, is that AI will get better at coding. So the model / harness / whatever is next takes care of the maintenance burden.

That's the theory anyway.

[stevepotter]

Be careful there. The whole "just wait 6 months" thing is problematic. It gives you an excuse to make a mess now, because "in 6 months" AI will magically fix it.

It also belittles the human resources. "I heard that 6 months AI will do everything, so why would I hire new engineers or promote the ones we have?"

[m0llusk]

Meanwhile many LLM users have seen generated code quality drop as prices and service are brought in line with costs. If graduate student level work costs many times the price of a student worker then why bother?