There are many forces at play and I think it is impossible to say how things will progress. However, the biggest worry I have is that the elimination of mainte

There are many forces at play and I think it is impossible to say how things will progress. However, the biggest worry I have is that the elimination of maintenance and bug fixing tasks will dramatically reduce the need for engineering hours. I don't see it happening in the next 10 years, but at some point someone is going to figure it out. If an ML system is able to extract the intended structure from a block of code and somehow translate that into a known-good pattern you could see things shift. I see it as being somewhat akin to human language translation.