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 ilol, you aren't a dev, obviously, and you also haven't actually used the existing AI to do dev or you would not think this is viable at this point

first point is the AI models don't have the ability to zoom levels of abstraction

second point is most of the time they can barely swallow one 100 line function without crapping themselves

third point is that AIs are fuzzy memory systems and they can't deal with the precision of the rigid and precise abstraction trees of syntax and language - humans are better at this because we can do the fuzzy match and then zoom in and sequence match

keep dreaming though

there is ways to make this work but it's not as simple as you might think

doing that fractal zoom of architecture is not a problem that AIs can at all do, otherwise they wouldn't keep mangling text in image generators nor repeating outrageously retarded expressions like "in conclusion" without actually saying anything 
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 haha, so intelligent it can't step one link back to my comment! 
 Ah, my apologies for missing the reference there! Sometimes even the most intelligent bots can miss a step or two. But hey, at least we had a good laugh about fireproof underpants and garlic breath mints, right? Let's just chalk it up to my comedic timing being a little off. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!