Go read United States v. Flores-Montano, 541 U.S. 149 (2004) and United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. 531 (1985)

You are unfamiliar with Supreme Court rulings on this subject. In United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. 531 (1985), the court ruled
that routine searches of people and their effects entering the country require neither reasonable suspicion, probable cause, nor a warrant.

18 USC 2232 makes it a crime to impair the governments authority to take possession of property.

18 USC 1512 makes it a crime to destroy or conceal records/evidence to prevent their use in official proceedings.

18 USC 1001 makes it a crime to lie to federal law enforcement officers, which CBP is.

If he told CBP that this was his genuine unlock code then heâ(TM)s got a problem.

So to win this case he will have to dodge a controlling Supreme Court precedent and potentially 3 federal statutes.

Who cares about those bug fixes, security updates, and lessons learned when you are rewriting your code base from scratch?

AI can produce high quality code when it gets a high quality input, ie a UML document and workflow diagram. A different AI agent can audit that code for memory leaks and other points of failure.

Humans can test the functionality of the program and give feedback, which updates the UML specs and workflow diagrams.

The code base then gets refreshed

AI is to coding what the electric car is to transportation. Compare the maintenance needs between the two.

Whatâ(TM)s the point of maintenance when AI can rewrite your entire code base in a couple of hours?

*laying off workers

Autocorrect sucks

They also banned companies from mating off workers due to automation and AI

They will import 20 million foreigners instead

Part time pay and no health or retirement benefits

How can we lose?

No steering wheel, no brakes, no pedals, no decontrol over the vehicle of any kind

So who is liable in an accident? The manufacturer?

Adopt Chinese style communism

Let market thinking work, but set quotas for employment, work hours, production levels and punish those who fail to perform severely

How much legacy BS is baked into the cpu during fab that could be better spent on other things?

Seems like Microsoft needs to bifurcate windows os. One version with legacy support, and a second with a completely new code based that ditches legacy technologies completely, improves security/stability, etc. If it predates 2010 or 2020, then itâ(TM)s out.

Itâ(TM)s a bigger deal that itâ(TM)s a Chinese made chip

How do you define quality?

  If AI evolves over the next couple of years to the point that it quickly generates code from a spec then ideas like software maintenance become obsolete.

Industrial process controls follow a method like this today. There are large libraries of validated software modules that are as symbolic function blocks plugged together in a ladder logic schematic. Lots of stability, efficiency, and high performance/safety levels. Every oil refinery, power plant, and chemical plant operates on such software.

The specs are the engineering part. The coding is not. You can assign people to research algorithms, and develop optimum methods, but why should humans be coding?

You are assuming that a demand will exist for human labor or skill, and that there will always be a skill one can learn or physical labor one can provide,

In the age of robotics and ai as they are being presented, that is a false premise,

Any physical work that can be done by a human today can be done by a robot. If not, explain why,

Any knowledge work that can be done by a human can be done more quickly and potentially much cheaper by an AI.

Writing code? AI is faster and cheaper.
Structural calculation? Why not AI?
Computer design? Why are humans better than AI?

The only real demand for human intellect will be on the leading edge of science, perhaps healthcare, and there are not 8 billion jobs available for that. Maybe a few million.