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Code Is Debt

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118 points tornikeo | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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petcat ◴[31 Aug 25 21:20 UTC] No.45087209[source]▶
Generated AI code is produced quickly, and might work. But there's no art. Nobody on your team wrote that code. There's no ownership, and nobody to ask about it.

The lack of knowledge about your own codebase will only go deeper and deeper until the debt is insurmountable and the organization can't function at all because it has no knowledgeable engineers.

There is only computer-generated code cobbled together into some kind of business solution.

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1. hackthemack ◴[31 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.45087295[source]▶
Reminds me of every time I run npm install.

Before that, reminds me of when people talked about monkey patching RoR.

Seems like the general trend in programming since the beginning, when asked "Cheap, Fast, Good", the winners are always cheap and fast. Regular people have a hard time conceptualizing something they can not see.