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Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You by CharlieDigital on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:13AM (#49800755) 

    > After a certain point, people would be forced to refactor, because they find themselves unable to handle the complexity.
This is a fallacy; this is why legacy code exists that teams just work around. They lack the tests to verify it, the person that wrote it is long gone, it's handling some mission critical dataflow so no one touches the code and just builds around it.
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Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You by lolakutty on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:19AM (#49800838)
>They lack the tests to verify it, the person that wrote it is long gone, it's handling some mission critical dataflow so no one touches the code and just builds around it.

What you say here is not always the case.

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