Counterpoint: as long as context don't rot or it's less effective that starts maintaining repetitions only slightly different. Also

> we are not going back to hand-writing these functions

do you really think there isn't a good chunk, if not the majority outside some bubbles, of developers that still hand code? Crazy to hear, I bet you're not a programmer

The change is exponential and happening daily. The future is smaller teams spending a lot of money on AI credits.