There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.

I find it’s the most useful when asking it for small snippets of code or dealing with boilerplate stuff. Anything more complicated usually results in something broken.

They kind of already do. The C used by the kernel team isn’t the exact same as what everyone else uses. Mainly because of the tooling they’ve built around it. I can’t remember specifics, but the tooling in place really helps out in that department.

Also, “memory safe C” is already a proposal for the C lang project.