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Can't wait for all the consulting jobs on AI generated software that "we can't get the AI to add any more new features to correctly" and nobody knows anything about the current code.

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That's why OpenAI will also sell support contracts to debug and fix what their tools produce. Some occasional broken code isn't necessarily a problem if it can lead to more sales.

Vertical integration.

we already have this sort of company

it's called infosys/accenture/...

Yes, but those companies still have to hire people to do the breaking and fixing.

OpenAI could become a fully automated business ouroboros.

Personally, I think I'd rather be unemployed at that point.

Good argument. Though it is possible that rewriting the code anew with the AI could be faster and cheaper then to maintain the code...

Imagine the nightmares possible of 30 years of layer on top of layer on top of layer of AI written legacy code in an international business O_O

We're not talking about millions of lines of code anymore, that'll be hundreds of billions of lines of code.

Then you'll get private cloud AIs that solve enterprise-scale AI spaghetti code for an enterprise budget...

Some consultant will to come in to tame the AI because employees just kept stacking more and more and more and more code on top of itself to add new features. Features interact with one another and behaviour of older code changes. You end up with some kind incomprehensible singularity spaghetti.

Will be fun to be an AI-driven product maintainer in the future!

Then the hourly rates will really hit new highs. I'd like some of that pile of cash.

That sounds incredible. We should freeze AI progress right when that becomes possible. We would never advance beyond that point. I would be paid handsomely to fix the spaghetti code.

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