I imagine writing code by hand without AI will be the assembler of our times. Maybe the reasons to do it won't be "performance", but actually "maintainability"

I imagine writing code by hand without AI will be the assembler of our times. Maybe the reasons to do it won't be "performance", but actually "maintainability" or "legibility". Very similar to how you don't care about the machine code your high level code generates in 99% of the time, so you just make changes and replace it every time happily, but for that tight loop you want to keep it an assembler, I can imagine a world where, let's say for a bunch of simple UI components, you just ask the machine to do it for you and if tomorrow the requirements change a bit you ask again and throw away the old one, no big deal. But some gnarlier piece of business logic, harder to explain even to a human may need a more careful treatment, and to be easier to change by hand because that's where most of the changes happen, maybe.