A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code

Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by marcus_holmes on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:52PM (#50434650)

AI is an accelerator.

In this case it accelerated piling up the tech debt.

There's no reason they couldn't have paused the relentless production of features to do a few runs of cleaning up the code base while it was still readable.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:02AM (#50436270)

> In this case it accelerated piling up the tech debt.

So far, evidence is that's all it accelerates. We haven't seen any success stories where people make quality, maintainable software with LLMs at a rate any faster than humans would on their own.

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