True CS nerds will simply assimilate AI as just another tool to create cool stuff.
If tech companies were smart they would be using AI at first to simply address tech debt.
Lately I've been having some great results integrating structured data (in my case, XML) with AI. This is my current "crack".
I retired in June 2025. Some of the code I was maintaining was very old JavaScript. Every time a security scan came through, there was a complaint around the use of < script >, < style > and one other tag. Adding the Content-Security header resulted in a total meltdown. There are thousands of instances of those uses as inline code. That is the kind of technical debt that would be suitable to turn over to AI to morph into a safer form. Doing it manually would be a huge task and blithely omitted from the funding request made in the proposal. It's a genuine bomb waiting to detonate on the team that has to fix it.