it's interesting to think about. When farming took 99% of time, all people did was farm. Maybe they complained that the machines weren't as good and yield and quality would drop?

What can the computer chuds start doing when finally not every little stupid thing takes 2 weeks? Where to spend effort?

There is this relationship in the real world, where very professional people tell you "make it work first, make it good later" / do a vomit draft / just tape a cardboard tube to a widget as a handle to see if you like it, etc.but with software, common wisdom was if you don't get the fundamentals right, you will end up in trouble. there never was an identical draft to polish path for coding. reimplementing your entire UI in a better-suited lib took ages, for example.
AI might align effort more with the Pareto curve

Of course maybe those kinds of people were always wrong and you should "just get better at writing code" and then a rewrite wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but even if so, maybe AI will help people realize that.

RT: https://shitposter.world/objects/2cccb614-758f-4263-a10b-feb95cc9d8e0