Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code
by mereck on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:03PM
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While there probably is some FOMO, there is also some market competition at play. Encumbents are somewhat justifiably worried about getting disrupted by the growing AI-native nerd crowd.
Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code
by grey-area on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:31AM
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Incumbents are in the worst possible place to start chasing 30k commits a day, it is not going to end well if that’s what they’re doing.
For startups it makes some kind of sense to take risks in this way, for incumbents it makes no sense.
Not all of them. Some simply can’t afford it. Some hold true to processes to ensure quality code and knowledge behind contributions.
But what appears to be happening is a race driven by FOMO. Teams are being told to use more and more AI to speed up their productivity. Surely their competition is using AI to build more features, fix long-standing bugs, and make products more efficient. By not spending money on tokens it allows the competition to expand their share of a market. They can’t accept that; shareholders, investors, and owners would replace them with someone who is willing to pull out all the stops.