Comment The part that really gets me... (Score 1) 159
But "instead of trying to read or maintain source code, programmers would just tweak their prompts and generate software afresh."
Based on my experiences, this means no two iterations of the software will ever look or work the same. They won't actually be one version building on the next, but every re-run of the prompt will generate a fresh v1 that is distinctly different from the previous run.
Another angle of this, too, is based on recent court rulings - AI-generated material is NOT subject to copyright. So, for example if Microsoft decides to re-write Word using AI completely using this method, Word's source is no longer protected by copyright. Now *that* would be an interesting conundrum.