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zerohedge@zerohedgeMaintenance costs for AI-generated code have jumped 300% in 18 months, code duplication is up 48% and refactoring has dropped 60%. The result could be a massive technical debt problem hiding inside companies that initially saw AI coding as a productivity win: Checkmarx
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GA God Arguments@ArgumentsGod@zerohedge I've thought of this. But. Models have also gotten massively better. It's easier now to clean up code than it was half a year ago, to say nothing of 18 months. Tech debt is probably going down in terms of time and money required to make it right again.
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D4 Diver 41 (Expose Them)@ExposeDarkDeeds@zerohedge Somehow still better than offshore workers.
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RM Ryan McCormick@mccryan@zerohedge It is the absolute best refactoring tool if you control it properly. An LLM's natural disposition (every single model I've seen) is to staple things on inelegantly. It's testament to its ability to track the complexity of state but it looks horrifying to us.
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WI Who is John Galt?@blafasel42Interesting. Because it has never been easier to remove technical debt and improve code quality. My teams are doing this all the time: Running refafactoring- and modernization sweeps with AI Agents over human-produced legacy code to make it better. Improving documentation and…
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AA Austen Allred@AustenThis is 100% true. There’s way, way more technical debt now. The good news is the cost of dealing with technical debt is a fraction of what it used to be (per amount of technical debt.) The average company should (and will) have way, way more technical debt.
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