Yeah I mean, the goal is not to replace code maintainers, only to assist them in their work. Greg in general seems optimistic about it:
“I did a really stupid prompt,” he recounted. “I said, ‘Give me this,’ and it spit out 60: ‘Here’s 60 problems I found, and here’s the fixes for them.’ About one-third were wrong, but they still pointed out a relatively real problem, and two-thirds of the patches were right.” Mind you, those working patches still needed human cleanup, better changelogs, and integration work, but they were far from useless. “The tools are good,” he said. “We can’t ignore this stuff. It’s coming up, and it’s getting better.”
Yeah I mean, the goal is not to replace code maintainers, only to assist them in their work. Greg in general seems optimistic about it: