

I can’t speak to every bullet point…
But for some of them, specifically around household maintenance and general problem solving, it might be a learned behavior on their part. Problems come up, you solve them. It’s really comfortable.
Their comfort zone starts to shrink. More and more things fall onto your plate.
This is/was my wife and I. I’ve started opting for a “let’s do it together” approach. Let her see how I tackle these things. Idea is to build confidence and show her that despite the fact I am basically a genius wizard who can do anything, that she can be that too.
Last weekend I was able to “re-delegate” the task of getting the utilities people to mark where underground utilities were in our yard to dig in some flower beds. She found the numbers, made the calls, etc. 2 years ago it would have been out of the question but she nailed it. I’m very proud of her!
Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.
Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.
So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.