Judging by this quote, the only thing dying is quality:
Since the beginning of the year, the quality of software has been degrading pretty much everywhere, much of it caused by over-reliance on AI, or perhaps more accurately, the outsourcing of thinking and decision making to AI. In July, I moved my video podcast off of Spotify after a series of unexplainable outages, and Spotify’s engineering team seemed to take no real pride or accountability in fixing the root causes of the issue.
Only this week, Uber shipped a new feature to production in the Uber Eats app – a new way to select extras with your food order – with seemingly no QA testing: