> This isn't any different than the "person who wrote it already doesn't work here any more".

Yeah but that takes years to play out. Now developers are cranking out thousands of lines of “he doesn’t work here anymore” code every day.

> Yeah but that takes years to play out.

https://www.invene.com/blog/limiting-developer-turnover has some data, that aligns with my own experience putting the average at 2 years.

I have been doing this a long time: my longest running piece of code was 20 years. My current is 10. Most of my code is long dead and replaced because businesses evolve, close, move on. A lot of my code was NEVER ment to be permanent. It solved a problem in a moment, it accomplished a task, fit for purpose and disposable (and riddled with cursing, manual loops and goofy exceptions just to get the job done).

Meanwhile I have seen a LOT of god awful code written by humans. Business running on things that are SO BAD that I still have shell shock that they ever worked.

AI is just a tool. It's going from hammers to nail guns. The people involved are still the ones who are ultimately accountable.