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> There is absolutely no way they have control over what gets produced at that rate.

I'd wage that volume of changes is not leading to forward progress, but is a clear sign of code churn.

This in turn is a clear tell they are dealing with spaghetti code.

> spaghetti code wow, that's a term i haven't heard in a minute. almost makes me nostalgic for all the human-made slop we had to deal with

At least spaghetti code had one saving grace: whoever wrote it could only make so much of it before they gave up.