To be fair though, the vast, vast majority of software developers out there are working on CRUD and line of business apps that a) change all the time, b) are probably irrelevant a year down the line, and c) just aren't really sophisticated at all. There was never really a need to have finely crafted, artisanal code in these code bases, but it was something developers enjoyed doing, so they did it. Yes, sure, maintainability, yada yada. For most code out there, that never mattered anyway.

So AI is kind of just bringing that to its logical conclusion.