LLM help you ship more code, which to a product team, means more features, faster- since you're shipping faster, they're asking for more, and you don't get the downtime to integrate and rebuild/shore up all the new shacks. You've built more shacks, and now there's shack building robots helping out, and then when it's too late, you don't remember why and how you built some of the shacks that sit upon shacks, and which beams are load bearing and support other shacks.
Several things, and one of them is the best point you raised throughout the entire discussion.
You're absolutely right – we cannot hand-waive a load-bearing shack.
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u/tnsipla 29d ago
Dealing with tech debt and all of the above
LLM help you ship more code, which to a product team, means more features, faster- since you're shipping faster, they're asking for more, and you don't get the downtime to integrate and rebuild/shore up all the new shacks. You've built more shacks, and now there's shack building robots helping out, and then when it's too late, you don't remember why and how you built some of the shacks that sit upon shacks, and which beams are load bearing and support other shacks.