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.
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.
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.