Comment by utbabya

We're mostly agreeing except I'm optimistic about current generation of tools being closer to assembly > C than C > VB.

There are good signs AI would eliminate whole classes of costly human errors, whether the new classes of machine only problems would cost more as models iterate is remain to be seen, which I think would be lower. I'm not super optimistic about the social economical future coming from this but from a pure tech standpoint I'm optimistic about building cost.

Edit: also to address reliability, I think a lot of things are net positive to this world without five 9s, heck even two 9s.

Edit 2: s/building cost/tco