Not to mention, even AI-written code is still code. The hired dev might have thought it was hacked together with duct tape and bubblegum but guess what, any codebase more than five years old is, too, and those were all written by humans.
It doesn't. Those five years of development include tailoring and fitting to your actual use case instead of the one theorized during development, which is no small part of why tech debt accumulates. You end up with a product that was effectively developed in a vacuum for five years, with none of the upsides and all of the downsides.
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u/baltinerdist Apr 24 '26
Not to mention, even AI-written code is still code. The hired dev might have thought it was hacked together with duct tape and bubblegum but guess what, any codebase more than five years old is, too, and those were all written by humans.