He’ll, have they never had to maintain applications where the source code was lost? I haven’t had to do it too often, and I wouldn’t claim I’m very good at it, but on more than a handful of occasions I have had to decompile binaries to figure out what the fuck it was doing before I could write a wrapper around it to try and mitigate its unfixeable issues
The author was just saying that this will become the norm, not the exception. Ok, not this bad -- we can at least expect to have access to the AI-generated code for at least a little while longer. (I can imagine a future where AI programming gets just robust enough that some early adopter types will take their whiteboard sketches and prompts and prose test case descriptions, generate the code, compile it to a binary, then throw out the code. It's more agile! You can tweak the spec slightly and just turn the crank again!)
