[FrameworkFred]

I agree with some of the article. I agree that code is a liability that's distinct from the asset that the code is part of. It's like tires on a car, they're liability-like whereas the car can be thought of as an asset.

But AI can do some architecting. It's just not really the sort of thing where an unskilled person with a highly proficient LLM is going to be producing a distributed system that does anything useful.

It seems to me that the net effect of AI will be to increase the output of developers without increasing the cost per developer. Effectively, this will make software development cheaper. I suppose it's possible that there is some sort of peak demand for software that will require less developers over time to meet, but, generally, when something becomes cheaper, the demand for that thing will tend to increase.

I think the rumors of our demise are overblown.