They are a replacement if your job is only to write code.

Especially if your code contains a few bugs, misconceptions, and is sometimes completely unable to fix mistakes, going back and forth into the same wrong solutions.

This is not to say that AI assistants are useless. They are a good productivity tool, and I can output code much faster, especially for domains I am very familiar with.

That said, these starry-eyed AI circlejerk threads are incredibly cringe.

they would replace entire software department until AI make bug because endless changes into your javascript framework then they would hire human again to make fix

we literally creating solution for our own problem

Or, just let their users deal with the bugs b/c churn will be less than the cost of developers.

Right. Look at Electron apps. They're ubiquitous despite the poorer performance and user experience because the benefits outweigh the negatives.

Maintaining a codebase isn't going to be a thing in the future, at least not in the traditional/current sense.

... Or saboteur. :p