The best part is that AI-driven systems are fine with running even more tight loops than what a sane human would tolerate.
Eg. running full linting, testing and E2E/simulation suite after any minor change. Or generating 4 versions of PR for the same task so that the human could just pick the best one.
That sounds awful. A truly terrible and demotivating way to work and produce anything of real quality. Why are we doing this to ourselves and embracing it?
A few years ago, it would have been seen as a joke to say “the future of software development will be to have a million monkey interns banging on one million keyboards and submit a million PRs, then choose one”. Today, it’s lauded as a brilliant business and cost-saving idea.
We’re beyond doomed. The first major catastrophe caused by sloppy AI code can’t come soon enough. The sooner it happens, the better chance we have to self-correct.
And it will remain that way until you can delegate development tasks to AI with a 99+% success rate so that you don’t have to review their output and understand the code base anymore. At which point developers will become truly obsolete.