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It is a joke. But also entirely plausible.
Well, it's plausible but not 'just' for simple code.
Generally if the operator is dead set on AI sorting it out, and the AI gets into a loop of failure it burns through tokens and turns what should have been a cheap modification to a codebase into a multi-thousand dollar failure in a fairly short time. The more extraneous code there is for it to potentially incidentally mess with, the more likely it breaks test cases and goes back to perturb the codebase again hoping to fix it, but just breaking a different set of test cases.
Not really. Local models are pretty decent for simple tasks. The hardware to run them costs less than a month's salary.
"it's entirely plausible if I just ignore the economic reality, cost of compute, and capabilities of it all"!