Yes and its why AI fills me with impending doom: handing over the reigns to an AI that can deal with the bullshit for us means we will get stuck in a groundhog day scenario of waking up with the same shitty architecture for the foreseeable future. Automation is the opposite of plasticity.

Ground Hog day is optimistic, I think. It will be like "The Butterfly Effect": every attempt to fix the systems using the same dumb, wrote solutions will make the next iteration of the architecture worse and more shitty.

Maybe if you fully hand over the reigns and go watch Youtube all day.

LLMs allow us to do large but cheap experiments that we would never attempt otherwise. That includes new architectures. Automation in the traditional sense is opposite of plasticity (because it's optimizing and crystalizing around a very specific process), but what we're doing with LLMs isn't that. Every new request can be different. Experiments are more possible, not less. We don't have to tear down years of scaffolding like old automated systems. We just nudge it in a new direction.

I don’t think that will happen. It’s more like a 3d printer where you can feed in a new architecture and new design every day and it will create it. More flexibility instead of less.

I find it more likely it will result in an influx of new architectures.

Eventually, prog-lang designers will figure out how to get llms to create new prog-langs.