Seems falsifiable to me? If an LLM (+harness) is fully maintaining a project, updating things when dependencies update, handling bug reports, etc., in a way that is considered decent quality by consumers of the project, then that seems like it would falsify it.

Now, that’s a very high bar, and I don’t anticipate it being cleared any time soon.

But I do think if it happened, it would pretty clearly falsify the hypothesis .