The problem with AI is that those incentives wrong incentives are taken to 10000x.
And regarding "not every line will have to be reviewed, and not every line that has to be reviewed will be so complex that readability needs to be perfect to be maintainable.", the problem with AI is that code becomes basically unknowable.
Which is fine if everything that is built is slop, but many things aren't slop. Stuff that touches money, healthcare, personal relationships, etc you know, the things that matter in life, risks all turning into slop, which <will> have real life consequences.
And regarding "not every line will have to be reviewed, and not every line that has to be reviewed will be so complex that readability needs to be perfect to be maintainable.", the problem with AI is that code becomes basically unknowable.
Which is fine if everything that is built is slop, but many things aren't slop. Stuff that touches money, healthcare, personal relationships, etc you know, the things that matter in life, risks all turning into slop, which <will> have real life consequences.
We'll start seeing this in a few years.