Comment by protocolture

>Illegal? Get fucked. They will retire and you can deal with the mess, you have AI.

Considering the balance of my job is cleaning up technical debt, that's my own retirement I am worried about.

>When you can no longer pay off technical debt, you turn to technical bankruptcy: start over from scratch, greenfield.

What that looks like in say, 2030, I can only guess. We saw this happen to a multinational shipping company due to cryptolocker, but I dont know if theres going to be any interest in replicating that. Certainly the AI barking in the ear of the CEO isnt going to recommend it.

>I predict what will happen is eventually the number of technical bankruptcies will rise

Outside of industries required for national security maybe.

> there will be some new movement to only build codebases that fit within human heads, no AI required.

I suspect that rational governments are probably going to require No AI clauses in their tenders, but that we will also get hundreds of high profile "Whoops we used AI in this contract when we shouldn't" scandals that come to nothing.