Comment by captainbland

A couple of thoughts:

On 'just read the code' - all well and good. Of course this implies insisting on team members who can read the code, will read the code and are empowered to read the code.

Otherwise orgs will try to hire pure vibe coders who aren't interested in that and only allow time for literally just instructing agents to generate code because it sounds cheaper and execs don't understand the nuance so long as it looks like product is shipping - until it all blows up and the one standing senior developer on hand is supposed to fix a prod issue buried in millions of lines of vibe reviewed code ASAP.

On 'but it's cheaper than a junior': cloud hosted LLM systems are currently massively subsidised to an absurd degree. The cost side of things is all smoke and mirrors geared towards accelerated market adoption at all costs. It's not a profitable enterprise at the model development level.

At some point that AI economy is going to expect to make that money back, and future (especially near-future) hardware advancements don't explain where all of that is going to come from.