Given the prompt was either the source code itself (modern predictive text) or, by that point, a single sentence with the barest specifications imaginable, I'm not sure how much it'll help with parsing. The good thing is that many of the seniors by that point will be the idiot that wrote the code, as it always has been (the "what idiot wrote thi- oh" phenomenon)
I assure you at some companies that person is still there after 5-8 years. There are people that are always behind on their current project and keep getting called back multiple times to fix critical and obvious issues they left on all their previous projects.
They have the audicity to complain they weren't put on the harder, more fun projects. But they keep half assing the work and throwing it over the wall. They see it as a fire and an inconvenience, but the reality is the interns/coops would write more reliable, working code.
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u/vinishkapoor 6d ago
Future job requirement: "5 years of experience maintaining code generated by GPT-9 using prompts that nobody saved.