Now they have 13k lines of someone else’s mess (the AIs) to manage instead.

lossoth · 2026-03-28T11:05:15 1774695915

But this is a different kind of problem.

With legacy systems, at least the complexity was somewhat anticipated early in the design process (even if it was incorrect).

With automatically generated code, you get something that "works" but with a much vaguer underlying model, which makes it harder to understand when things start to go wrong.

In both cases, the real cost comes later, when you're forced to debug under pressure.