alt Hacker NewsRepeat after me: most software spends the majority of its lifetime in the maintenance phase.
Repeat after me: it follows that most of the money the software makes occurs during the maintenance phase.
Repeat after me: our industry still does not understand this after almost 100 years of being in existence.
Alan Kay was 100% right when he said that the computer revolution hasn't occurred yet. For all of our current advancements all tools are more or less in the Stone Age.
My great hope is that AI will actually accelerate us to a point where the existing paradigm fully breaks beyond healing and we can finally do something new, different, and better.
So for now - squeee! - put a jetpack on your SDLC with AI and go to town!!! Move fast and break things (like, for real).
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I hate code and I want as little of it as possible in my codebase.
Most software has a few years lifetime and nearly no users. What you say is only true after reaching a certain milestone like product market fit. I think the idea is to reach that turning point as fast as possible and then rebuild the system from ground up with maintainability and quality focus.