If before AI you couldn't deploy to production without a code review, what makes you think you will be able to with AI?

To be fair, when I was a kid we'd connect the editor to the server using an unencrypted ftp connection and modify php files in production.

This worked perfectly fine, and phpmyadmin made schema changes super easy.

These days we do tests, schema migrations, terraform, staging sites, traffic migration, monitoring, logging, revision control, etc.

... it's a lot of boring work, and for most CRUD apps, its entirely unnecessary :)

That said: I doubt we'll abandon these practices for things that matter.

Because while modifying php files in production can increase velocity, it can also get very "exciting" if you have a few co-workers on the same project :)