Where does mass-scale AI-created software take us?

[HN again]We are heading for 2º C global warming by 2040, possibly by 2030. And the IPCC and others already pointed out that 2º means the end of civilisation.So, it's coming anyway... but it's the nature of human fsck-ups that they come in clusters. That's why someone coined the term "clusterfsck".So, we have multiple human fsckups coming along all together in the mid-2020s, just as we did in the mid-1930s.Sketchy off the cuff chronology:Late 1980s...* Cheap COTS x86 hardware gets good enough to run free OSes from academia (good)Late 1990s...* Virtualisation forcibly brought to x86 in defiance of Popek and Goldberg (good)* Broadband everywhere (good)Result:* Mainstream acceptance of FOSS (good)Early 2000s...Result:* Cheap mass cloud computing (bad)Side-effect: financial crisis -- the dot-com crashTime passes. International travel gets cheaper. Internet facilitates global trade, globalisation, and awareness of inequalities. Only now you can afford to get there.Late noughties...Some…