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

Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by gre on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:03PM (#50434724)

Where I used to work we had hundreds of microservices. Forget looking at the code, I couldn't even tell if the service was live in production or not sometimes, and if so, was it still doing its job?

The react app was almost unworkable, with people just cloning components and dropping them in as another tab with 95% shared code but obtuse names.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by jdonaldson on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:00AM (#50436246)

I don't think we've even seen the worst of how bad toxic AI code can get :/

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by gre on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:16AM (#50436346)

This stuff happened before AI. I wonder how they're doing with AI. Probably better, honestly.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by jdonaldson on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:06PM (#50443145)

I worry that we as a species may end up cargo-culting ourselves into a pattern of fake work that produces real value without understanding the underlying mechanisms. But, it doesn't have any points in this sprint, so I'm going to spike a backlog and bring it up in the retro.

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