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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by stingraycharles on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:11AM (#50365074)
I may be ignorant, but what do you mean with this and why is it upvoted so much?

To me KISS is basically about how you’d write the code, the architecture, which is something that - at least currently - humans need to oversee when writing new code with LLMs.

But what does it have to do with AI discovering a ton of bugs in a lot of (open-source) software?

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:17AM (#50365137)
A lot of these bugs are in rarely exercised code paths that probably shouldn't have been written into the software in the first place.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by sznio on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:17AM (#50365142)
that people will finally start solving issues by simplifying the software rather than generating even more edge cases.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by boomlinde on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:25AM (#50365223)
Software that does less is easier to understand and reason about, and typically requires less code. Less opportunity for bugs to appear.

Maybe, when they build a pomodoro timer, people will consider the possibility that the entirety of a browser engine as well as 30 000 javascript dependencies from random unvetted sources introduces unnecessary complexity and a practically infinitely fractal attack surface.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by embedding-shape on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:19PM (#50368646)
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