Indeed, our trade has changed forever, and more specifically, we might have to alter our operational workflows in the entire industry as well.

There are so many potential trajectories going forward for things to turn sour, I don't even know where to start the analysis. The level of sophistication an AI can achieve has no upper bound.

I think we've had a good run so far. We've been able to produce software in the open with contributions from any human on the planet, trusting it was them who wrote the code, and with the expectation that they also understand it.

But now things will change. Any developer, irrespective of skill and understanding of the problem and technical domains can generate sophisticated looking code.

Unfortunately, we've reached a level of operational complexity in the software industry, that thanks to AI, could be exploited in a myriad ways going forward. So perhaps we're going to have to aggressively re-adjust our ways.