Oh yeah. The AI hype cultural moment will wear off, but we'll be stuck with the technical debt, cognitive debt and slop code, which has made it into critical production systems, for decades, probably.

The code--as long as you don't try to modify or evolve it, engendering further nondeterministic degradation--will mostly work, but 0.01% of the time it won't, and you'll never be able to predict when and where that'll be.