These software engineering analogies are getting tiresome.

People are shouting “yeah the hard part was never writing code, it was managing complexity” as a sort of last hurrah before AI engulfs them.

This is reality: not only can AI write code. It can manage complexity.

Prompt: read the article in this thread then execute its principles on my codebase. Write a harness and programmatic procedures that will trigger you to respond with the articles philosophy to code changes. Be vigilant and monitor every aspect constantly.

I would say for the above prompt, AI is about 60 to 70 percent as a good as a human now. A year ago it was 20 percent. The gap is closing.