alt Hacker NewsIt ends like this: all codebases become unmaintainable spaghetti after agentic AI spends years on it. Then after every agent in existence will spend minimum 24 hours reading the codebase to add a simple feature, the software is abandoned.
It ends like this: all codebases become unmaintainable spaghetti after agentic AI spends years on it. Then after every agent in existence will spend minimum 24 hours reading the codebase to add a simple feature, the software is abandoned.
I believe most codebases were "unmaintainable spaghetti" even before LLMs: depends on how you define it though.
To be, it means expensive to evolve.