September 22, 2026
AI brought more code and rework: @thdxr sees no new cycle
On 22 September, @thdxr reduced AI's effect on code to one observation: there is more code, but it still has to be redone. At first, the code works and makes it to production. A few months later, it is deemed bad and rewritten.
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Before AI, it went like this: - you wrote code; - it worked, you shipped it; - a few months later, you realized the code was bad; - you rewrote it; - and it all repeated. I'm not sure much has changed. Now you can write a lot of code, but you can also rewrite a lot.
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Previously, a developer wrote working code, shipped it and returned to refactor it a few months later. **The cycle remains.** AI has increased the amount of code at the start and the amount of rework at the end.
@thdxr I'm not sure this cycle has changed at all.
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