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Same. I vacillate between thinking our profession will soon be over to thinking we’re perfectly safe. Sometimes, it’s brilliant. It is very good at exploring and explaining a codebase, finding bugs, and doing surgical fixes. It’s sometimes good at programming larger tasks, but only if you really don’t care about code quality.

The one thing I’m not sure about is: does code quality and consistency actually matter? If your architecture is sufficiently modular, you can quickly and inexpensively regenerate any modules whose low quality proves to be problematic.

So, maybe we really are fucked. I don’t know.