alt Hacker News> Maybe AI will address everything at every level.
I think this is the idea you need to entertain / ponder more on.
I largely agree with you, what I don't agree with is the weighting about the individual elements.
My point was that I could do a 30 minutes cleanup in order to streamline hundreds of endpoints. Without AI I would not have been able to justify this migration due to business reasons.
We get to move faster, also because we can shorten deprication tails and generally keep code bases more fit more easily.
In particular, we have dropped the external backoffice tool, so we have a single mono repo.
An Ai does tasks all the way from the infrastructure (setting policies to resources) and all the way to the frontends.
Equally, if resources are not addressed in our codebase, we know at a 100% it is not in use, and can be cleaned up.
Unused code audits are being done on a weekly schedule. Like our sec audits, robustness audits, etc.
Yeah, the more I debate the AI-lovers the more I can empathize with the possibility it may very well turn out to be everything is an Agent. Encodable.
I'm not a doomer either, but I do think this arc is a human arc: there's going to be a lot of collateral damage. To your point, Agents with good stewardship can also implement hygiene and security practices.
It's important we surface potential counter metrics and unintended side effects. And even in doing so the unknown unknowns will get us. With that said, I like this positive stewardship framing, I'll choose to see and contribute to that, thanks!