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> Not only does the code become impossible for humans to reason about very quickly, it actually becomes difficult for agents to reason about it.

Story of many enterprise applications built only by humans. There is a good reason that frequently devs either refactor their codebase or do a complete rewrite.

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True. In human built applications, the problems really start manifesting when the original code owners/maintainers leave, effectively turning their work into legacy code.

But vibe coded projects are effectively instant legacy code, due to lack of real ownership. So it's kind of a bigger problem.

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