alt Hacker NewsYeah and then it becomes an unmaintainable monolith because at some point the AI also lost track of what code does what.
Great for Opus because you’re now a captive customer.
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Yes, it's a risk if you don't guide it well, but you can also manage it pretty ok.
I have a side project that I started in January 2024. Initially, used Github Copilot autocompletions heavily. This year I started using CLI agents (mostly Claude, but others too) to do more stuff. I got to around 100k LoC (sure, it's not enterprise scale, but for a personal project it's pretty big), but I'd argue it's maintainable, it's split into 10 Django apps, that are each pretty self contained, I've done several refactors on it (using AI agents) to make it more maintainable.
The point of eventual “all-code-is-written-by-AI” is that it really does not matter if your code is maintainable or not. In the end, most of the products are written to accomplish some sort of a goal or serve a need within a given set of restrictions (cost, speed and etc.). If the goal is achieved within given restrictions, the codebase can be thrown away until the next need is there to just create everything from scratch, if needed.
If you don’t know that Opus isn’t an entity, but a model,
you might be a little too far removed from the situation to comment authoritatively?