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

Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by mereck on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:03PM (#50434732)

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.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by grey-area on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:31AM (#50439407)

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.

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