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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by wolvesechoes on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:59AM (#50377314)
> They tend to be very stable, very predictable - and very high quality.

Some of them are, most are not.

Actually, most FOSS stuff is anything but stable or predictable. Instead it is constant treadmill, broken compatibility, and recently, thousand of commits from claude et al.

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by jjkaczor on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:31AM (#50392074)
I did say: "some" - you are correct about "most" (chasing the latest "shiny" pattern, method, infrastructure, etc - constant churn)