Problem is, that in everyones' experience, this almost never happens. The prototype is declared "good enough, just needs a few small adjustments", rewrite is declared too expensive, too time-consuming. And crap goes to production.
AI is emerging as a possible solution to this decades old problem.
I think we'll need to see some major f-ups before this current wave matures.
How much is it a problem, really ?
I mean, what are the alternatives ?
How much of a problem it is can be seen with tons of products that are crap on release and only slowly get patched to a half-working state when the complaints start pouring in. But of course, this is status quo in software, so the perception of this as a problem among software people isn't universal I guess.
But almost no-one really works like that, and those three separate steps are often done ad-hoc, by the same person, right when the fingers hit the keys.
The promise of coding AI is that it can maybe automate that last step so more intelligent humans can actually have time to focus on the more important first parts.
So we went full circle, again.
My feeling is that software developers will need end up working this type of technical consultant role once LLM dominance has been universally accepted.
