Writings on the wall, it is true, tech debt will no longer be a thing to care about.
"but who will maintain it?" massive massive question, rapidly becoming completely irrelevant
"but who will review it?" humans sure, with the assistance of ai, writing is also on the wall: AI will soon become more adept at code review than any human
I can understand "losing all legitimacy" being a thing, but to me that is an obvious knee jerk reaction to someone who is not quite understanding how this trend curve is going.
Trust me, I’m a well seasoned leathery developer and I’m no newbie when it comes to using AI. But this level of irrational exuberance is so over the top I just can’t take it seriously.
Yes, in the very long term I expect this to be able to replace large swaths of the sw dev lifecycle, product, ideation, the whole kaboodle. That’s a long way off, whatever “a long way off” means in this accelerated timeline.
For the next bunch of years, yes you’ll have to worry about architecture, coupling, testing, etc. I’m happy to have my competitors share your attitude, cause we’ll smoke them in the market.