In the future there won't be any technical debt. You were lucky to live early. Code, most code, will eventually turn into some sort of sanitised applied maths

In the future there won't be any technical debt. You were lucky to live early. Code, most code, will eventually turn into some sort of sanitised applied maths corpus (with a heavy overlay of "AI" analytical tools). In applied mathematics you have cultural obsolescence (stuff that we no longer find interesting or relevant, like an asymptotic formula for the Airy function [0]) but the corpus is intrinsically add-only. Once something is solved it does not have be solved again. Its essence is eternal, so to speak. Think about code development in such as mature state. It will mostly work by pulling together (using AI prompts) logical units from the future version of Rosetta [1]. When we get to that stage it will be hard to add something truly new. Just like it takes a long incubation and a PhD to add some marginal new thing to applied mathematics, it will take effectively trained applied mathematicians to add something minor to the evolving code corpus. Coding for the common folk will be mostly compositing. It might be productive and even fun, but not quite the same. We lived through a period of widespread democratization of development. Cherish the freedom of reinventing the wheel in countless flawed ways :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_function [1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code