Comment by conartist6

> Who's to say AI won't be able to just rewrite the code cleanly while keeping the core idea within 6, 12, or 18 months?

Well lets say it's 18 months from now and AI writes lovely, ideal code. At that moment, the AI would have eliminated the need for AI, right? If the code is good, you can just read it and edit it.

The selling point of AI is that you will embrace that idea that you code is a mile-high stinking garbage heap, so that any human would be overwhelmed by the stench. Only so long as the best strategy for engineering is to pile the garbage as high as possible as fast as possible will the best tool for engineering be AI.

So my counter argument is: just wait 18 months and you can completely skip adopting AI.