Another thing is that working on a large codebase is not even mostly about writing code it's about verifying the change. There are a lot of tickets in our backlog that I could roll through "fixing" by just joyriding my IDE through the codebase but verifying each of those changes will in some cases take days (I work on a platform supporting most of the company's business).
I guess the AI folks will insist that the next step is "agentic" AIs that will push the changes to a test environment that it keeps up to date, adds and modifies tests ensuring that they're testing intent creates a MR argues with the other agents in the review, checks the nightly integration report and supports it into production.
I guess the AI folks will insist that the next step is "agentic" AIs that will push the changes to a test environment that it keeps up to date, adds and modifies tests ensuring that they're testing intent creates a MR argues with the other agents in the review, checks the nightly integration report and supports it into production.