Conditional on AI taking coding jobs, will devs brought in to clean up after an AI complain the AI code is unreadable?
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If, by April 2033, an AI is brought in to replace one or more programmers entirely, but gets stuck and is unable to fix code, and human developers are brought back in to fix it, will they complain that the AI-written code is hard to read, or even nonsensical?
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