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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by pianopatrick on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:54PM (#49424283)
In my personal project I've found having a hard lines of code limit has been a good limit on complexity. Makes me really ask if I need things.

One theory I have floating around in my head is that if a whole code base was microservices and micro front ends that were all less than 5,000 loc then you could fit the whole thing into a 100k token AI context window when working on it. And being few lines of code would force them to be somewhat simple

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by kypro on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:23PM (#49426676)
Yeah, I think microservices are going to see a new wave of enthusiasm for this reason in the coming years.

I've had a lot success at the company I work for shipping small contained microservices for less technical teams to maintain with agents.

Personally I think this most of what SWEs should be doing these days... Code is easy to produce now. We should be handing over the creation and shipping of code to the relevant teams.

Maybe there will be more complexity overall, but it will be constrained via well designed microservices and distributed across the organisation.

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