> Discussions about choosing a library with the best syntactic sugar method naming is just as crazy as suggesting we type in assembly.

I have a more hopeful take. As AIs improve and get faster we can more quickly and iteratively improve code which we may have historically avoided due to the work involved.

I know i've made several refactors that would have otherwise been insane lifts. Not only because the work involved but because sometimes you don't know if it will work, and so you have a sort of double friction; you don't know if it will even succeed. With an AI you can just throw it at the refactor to see if it runs into a problem all while you're having a coffee break or w/e.

In general AI is going to enable humanity to be more extreme versions of itself. For good and bad. I suspect more bad than good, though.