The mindset of programming is completely different than rubber stamping/tweaking slop… don’t know where they are going to get real developers in 20 years.
I look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
Good thing that pipeline of people isn’t under existential threat. If we get rid of all the interns, problem solved. AI can do that! /s
The mindset of programming is completely different than rubber stamping/tweaking slop… don’t know where they are going to get real developers in 20 years.
I look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
Is there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
No, but they don’t know that yet.
At that point it would just be “keep it alive until the replacement is ready”