> So you live in a world where code history must only be maintained orally?

There are many companies and scenarios where this is completely legitimate.

For example, a startup that's iterating quickly with a small, skilled dev team. A bunch of documentation is a liability, it'll be stale before anyone ever reads it.

Just grabbing someone and collaborating with them on what they wrote is much more effective in that situation.

> For example, a startup that's iterating quickly with a small, skilled dev team. A bunch of documentation is a liability, it'll be stale before anyone ever reads it.

This is a huge advantage for AI though, they don't complain about writing docs, and will actively keep the docs in sync if you pipeline your requests to do something like "I want to change the code to do X, update the design docs, and then update the code". Human beings would just grumble a lot, an AI doesn't complain...it just does the work.

> Just grabbing someone and collaborating with them on what they wrote is much more effective in that situation.

Again, it just sounds to me that you are arguing why AIs are superior, not in how they are inferior.