> Think about all the possibilities that could evolve from self-maintained programs. What are some that you are considering? Most maintenance I do is in the fo

> Think about all the possibilities that could evolve from self-maintained programs. What are some that you are considering? Most maintenance I do is in the form of bug repair and change requests. Most of those wouldn't be fixable (or even identifiable) by machines. It's not errors like "value x should be y" (almost all of those get shaken out in alpha.) It's requests like "When I get to step H in our workflow, I shouldn't have to fill out form 2 to get information about the customer I'm helping." I mean, for technical things like encryption, I could see a lot of growth potential. Other algorithms where there is a good metric for "better" would also be candidates (compression also springs to mind.) But on the whole, most applications have a lot of human interfacing and critical thinking that needs to happen. AI is going to take a long time to get to the point where it can fix those kinds of problems.