I agree that "maintainability" is the wrong place to stake one's flag. It's a technical problem and will probably be overcome. The "lack of wisdom" in AI coded projects which does not strike me as a soluble technical problem concerns questions like: which software is worth writing and which isn't? How are tradeoffs evaluated? I don't think AIs are structurally capable of answering these questions in the same way humans are. But they make those decisions anyway!