by "maintainability" and "rarely remembered by the engineer" i'm assuming the bigger concern (beyond commenting and sane code) is once everyone starts producing tons of code without looking - and reading(reviewing) code is, to me at least, much harder than writing - then all of this goes unchecked:

* subtle footguns

* hallucinations

* things that were poorly or incompletely expressed in the prompt and ended up implemented incorrectly

* poor performance or security bugs

other things (probably correctable by fine-tuning the prompt and the context):

* lots of redundancy

* comments that are insulting to the intelligence (e.g., "here we instantiate a class")

* ...

not to mention reduced human understanding of the system and where it might break or how this implementation is likely to behave. All of this will come back to bite during maintenance.

that's a good take

> getting software that does what you want

so then we become PMs?

According to Peter Walker from Carta:

> the company re-cap'd employees at a more realistic valuation a couple years back. So looks like all employees benefited here which is a major win. Respect to the founders for looking out!

i get what you are saying, but i don't think it's fair to call it bike shedding, getting the keys right is also important, one can easily screw up that part too

that is some brutal self-honesty right there

Especially since they mention being a surgeon in some other comments.

um, no i didn't

if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.

> the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history

that's like the first sentence

> they were offering Java tools free to schools for teaching and research

This is also underrated considering there once was an era when you had to pay a lot of money to use a compiler (or almost any software, really) and had to pay a lot of money to access documentation (!) oh what a crazy world it was.

What's impressive is that somebody, somewhere keeps collecting a nice stash of Eastern Baltic cod otoliths in hopes that somebody else would come along and invent a new way to use them.

These types of time series are super important, but hard to finance as they often only yield cool papers after decades.