I think AI will evolve to the point where it produces working, bug free code. But that code won't necessarily be that readable, clean or modular. In the future the complexity or how "bad" the code is won't matter because the LLM will deal with the complexity and clean up the messes automatically. Your code wasn't modular enough to account for a certain new feature? Well the LLM will simply make it modular enough. Is the code too hacky to fix a bug? The LLM will make it less hacky if it was too hacky in the first place. OR the LLM can deal with the hackiness. That is the future. Your skills will atrophy in the same way humanities skills with the slide rule has atrophied.

Going against the grain here which statistically is more likely to be right given how HN was so wrong about self driving and AI being useless for coding. I think HNers given that their identity is tied around coding are of course going to defend that identity till the bitter end in the same way artists did.