Second angle: > If your AI scaling statement is accurate then the problem will eventually solve itself as organizations that mandated AI usage will start to fa

Second angle: > If your AI scaling statement is accurate then the problem will eventually solve itself as organizations that mandated AI usage will start to fall behind their non-AI mandating peers. I find one of the biggest differences between junior engineers and seniors is they think differently about how complexity scales. Juniors don't think about it as much and do very well in small codebases where everything is quick. They do less well when the complexity grows and sometimes the codebase just simply falls over. It's like billiards. A junior just tries to make the most straight forward shot and get a ball in the hole. A senior does the same, but they think about where they will leave the cue ball for the next shot, and they take the shot that leaves them in a good position to make the next one. I don't see AI as being able to possess the skills that a senior would have to say "no, this previous pattern is no longer the way we to do things because it has stopped scaling well. We need to move all of these hardcoded values to database now and then approach the problem that way." AFAIK, AI is not capable of that at all, it's not capable of a key skill of a senior engineer. Thus, it can't build a system that scales well with respect to complexity because it is not forward thinking. I'll posit as well that knowing how to change a system so that it scales better is an emergent property. It's impossible to do that architecture up front, therefore an AI must be able to say "gee, this is not going well anymore- we need to switch this up from hardcoded variables to a database - NOW; before we implement anything else." I don't know of any AI that is capable of that. I could agree that when that point is reached, and a human starts prompting on how to refactor the system (which is a sign the complexity was not managed well) - then it's possible to reduce the interest cost of outsized complexity by then using an AI to start managing the AI induced complexity...