> Code (and specs) are going to fade into obscurity

I'm always skeptical when I read absolute statements like this.

Especially about specs. They drive and document how the software should work, behave, and under which conditions. In the same moment you write a prompt in natural language, you are writing a spec.

Why should they disappear?

For the same reasoning, we could no longer need books or manuals or documents (is it valuable to keep around that doc about F-22 specs?).

Agreed. Specs are more important than ever. Constraints: types, contracts, protocols, schemas, APIs and such are what ground the boundaries of systems.

Without them, code drift is a guarantee.

Does anyone trust that a set of human sentences typed into a box is more reliable and precise than objectively exact descriptions of data?

This is not to diminish the utility of these code factories. But surely, if anything provides resistance to drift, it's codebase consistency, standards, and things which must objectively be true for the software to function.