[madrox]

As a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment.

I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all legacy now. The question is how quickly a new AI codebase could catch up to that code base and overtake it, with all the AI-compatibility best practices baked in. Once that happens, there is no value in that legacy code.

Any prognostication is a fool's errand, but I wouldn't go long on those giant codebases.

[AIorNot]

Yeah agreed - It all depends on how quickly AI (or more aptly, ai driven work done by humans hoping to make a buck) starts replacing real chunks of production workflows

“prediction is hard especially about the future” - yogi berra

As a hedge - I have personally dived deep into AI coding, actually have been for 3 years now - I’ve even launched 2 AI startups and working on a third - but its all so unpredictable and hardly lucrative yet

As an over 50 year old - I’m a clear target for replacement by AI