@sehe @Tereya @eniko Yes.

I had my computer writing all of my boiler-plate code back in 2001.

Computer-assisted coding isn't particularly new.
Folks tell me how incredibly different it is this time, which is valid. But, of course, most of the folks telling me that don't know how impressive my code assist tooling was in 2001.

@Tereya @eniko I can see that.

To me, the exciting impact is software preservation for history. I suspect that we lose some little piece of interesting source code every day due to a combination of licensing hell and forgetfulness.

I welcome better tools to restore lost code from whatever binaries remain.

I know that the current unsustainable subsidies will end, but with the right experts in place, the same technique should be possible to do slower on reasonably priced hardware.

@Tereya @eniko If it make you feel better, I've had access to existing tools that could do the decompiling and relabeling people are excited about since around 2016.

Today's pleasant answer machines expand access to tools most folks might not otherwise discover - which itself is interesting and some times quite useful.

But "more people notice computers can already do X!" doesn't make much of a headline, so we get sensationalism, instead.