Then use AI for maintenance. It's AI all the way down. AI is taking over. AI is going to win and there's no stopping it. You're going to be left behind forever

Then use AI for maintenance. It's AI all the way down. AI is taking over. AI is going to win and there's no stopping it. You're going to be left behind forever if you don't use AI right now. In fact, you may be too far behind already to start. Did I do that right? ;) Anyway, AI maintenance can be a time saver if the maintenance is easy. Like upgrading a dependency and all you really need to do is fix imports on five hundred files and modify a method or two. That would have been time consuming, but it's not hard. I think the OP has hit a good point though. Writing code is the fun part, not the bottleneck. The pain is the maintenance, so let's apply the AI there and keep having the fun to ourselves.