This shit is scary. People don't know what's going to hit them.
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I call BS.
Okay, this situation might actually be feasible for simple applications, but at its current state, I question the AI's ability to maintain apps that grow in complexity.
I look forward to it being a productivity tool, but anything that's complicated, (enterprise apps, caching layers, database indexing) AI can't solve at least for the next 10 years.
I think if this actually worked as stated in the tweet (which is a big if) the "app" that required maintenance would just be the input/prompt to the AI code generator, and you would expect to throw the code away every time you modified that input.
In a similar way to how if you program something in C you don't care that the compiler generates maintainable assembly output, because you just throw it away every time you make a change and recompile.
That's not gonna fly for any established business, or any business that will become established. For one thing, you can't delete customer data and start anew. You also don't want to break existing links or you suffer SEO. Maybe you intentionally segregate rewrites to only stateless parts of your application, but at that point you need an expert human to architect. Or maybe you ask the AI for migration scripts, which is even harder for AI to solve, and hard to expect the layman to follow instruction properly.
Code/schema/system generators already exist for various parts of tech, and the one hardest problem to solve have always been modification.
All I needed was a new tool tip, but COCK SUCKIN MOTHERFUCKIN ANGULARJS WONT STOP CULLING IT IMMEDIATELY.
And that was my week.