I'm actually pro-AI and I use AI assistants for coding, but I'm also very concerned that the way those things will be deployed at scale in practice is likely to

I'm actually pro-AI and I use AI assistants for coding, but I'm also very concerned that the way those things will be deployed at scale in practice is likely to lead to severe degradation of software quality across the board. Why the hand-wringing? Well, for one thing, as a developer I still have to work on that code, fix the bugs in it, maintain it etc. You could say that this is a positive since AI slop would provide for endless job security for people who know how to clean up after it - and it's true, it does, but it's a very tedious and boring job. But I'm not just a developer, either - I'm also a user, and thinking about how low the average software quality already is today, the prospect of it getting even worse across the board is very unpleasant. And as for things taking care of themselves, I don't think they will. So long as companies can still ship something, it's "good enough", and cost-cutting will justify everything else. That's just how our economy works these days.