Disclaimer: not an """AI""" enthusiast. I think it takes away the joy of coding, which makes me sad.

With that out of the way, I don't think there will be "people inheriting codebases" for much longer, at least not in the vast majority of business-related software needs. People will still be useful insofar as you need someone responsible and able to be sued for contract breach, failures and whatnot, but we'll see more and more agents inheriting previous agents codebases. And in the other hand, "small software" that caters to particular customized workflows can be produced entirely by LLMs.

I can totally relate how some of us would want to be off raising goats, planting watermelons or whatever.