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Let's say AI writes perfect, bug free code. Then what?

Suppose we grant the most optimistic scenario: AI generates flawless, production-ready code. No bugs, no regressions, no tech debt. Code is no longer written, it’s summoned.

Cool. But.. now what?

Who writes the requirements? Product managers typing prompts into a text box? CEOs dragging Figma elements and calling it shipped?

How does that scale? Who maintains the systems those prompts create? Other LLMs? And who maintains them? More AI?

It turtles all the way down, a recursive stack of AI maintaining AI, until we’re effectively simulating full stack human engineers in digital form.

At some point, aren't we just reinventing ourselves.. in Python?




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