Another consideration might be how far your “town” is from a more major center.

A town with a population of 1000 might not feel that rural if it’s 10 miles down the road from a city of a million.

If the next closest center > 5,000pop is 250 miles away… Perhaps a different story.

I’ve hear it said that in Europe 100km is considered a long distance and in North America 100 years is considered a long time.

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Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.

Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.

So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.