

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.
Tough to say. He’ll need never livers and kidneys no matter how good the intermediate care is. Not saying buying a healthy young person for spare parts isn’t beyond him.
You’ll know he’s grokked how badly he’s fucked his body once he starts up an organ printing/regeneration company. Which I guarantee he will, assuming by his calculation he figures out the reality of his situation in time. If he finds out late…? A bunch of Ugrher people are going to be getting blood tests and one of them is going to disappear along with any records they ever existed at all.