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AI makes tech debt more expensive

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vander_elst ◴[14 Nov 24 16:45 UTC] No.42138032[source]▶
"Companies with relatively young, high-quality codebases"

I thought that at the beginning the code might be a bit messy because there is the need to iterate fast and quality comes with time, what's the experience of the crowd on this?

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1. happytoexplain ◴[14 Nov 24 17:07 UTC] No.42138314[source]▶
A startup with talent theoretically follows that pattern. If you're not a startup, you don't need to go fast in the beginning. If you don't have talent in both your dev team and your management, the codebase will get worse over time. Every company can differ on those two variables, and their codebases will reflect that. Probably most companies are large and talent-starved, so they go slow, start out with good code, then get bad over time.