Clothes (today) are fungible. Some products are, like prototype experiences. Those are so uncommon that developers who got to do green field coding were making their peers jealous. This is because most software lasts for a long time. So long, in fact, that prototypes ”turning into” production systems for many years is a meme. If you look at the value built in large companies today, it’s not code, but predominantly data. If we didn’t have to care about data from legacy systems, we’d be a lot faster too.

Is there a market for such fast rotating code? Yes. And that market will probably grow, due to it getting flooded with cheap labor and attention – I’m sure people will find new use cases as well. But, crucially, this is not the market we have. You can bet all you want on AI, but in all likelihood the market needs will largely remain the same.