We hired some LLM cowboy developer externals that were pushing out a plethora of PRs daily and a large portion of our team's time at one point was dedicated entirely to just doing PR reviews. Eventually we let them go, and the last few months for us has been dedicated to cleaning up vast quantities of unmaintainable LLM code that's entered our codebase.

I think it's still early days, and it's probably the case that a lot of software development teams have yet to realize that a team basically just doing PR reviews is a strong indication that a codebase is very quickly trending away from maintainability. Our team is still heavily using LLMs and coding agents, but our PR backlog recently has been very manageable.

I suspect we'll start seeing a lot of teams realize they're inundated with tech debt as soon as it becomes difficult for even LLMs to maintain their codebases. The "go fast and spit out as much code as humanly possible" trend that I think has infected software development will eventually come back to bite quite a few companies.