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munk-atoday at 5:13 PM1 replyview on HN

This, I suspect, is exactly like offshoring - and a lot of companies died during the offshoring fad because their software products become full of low quality merges and feature improvements that the company couldn't afford to fix or remove by the time they realized there was a problem. That remains my primary concern with AI code generation - well established codebases might become full of slop to the point of being unusable without a clear path back to maintainability leading to company death.


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Marsymarstoday at 6:05 PM

There's precedence for new versions of software being abandoned for older code bases... usually the new version doesn't ship or gets forked relatively quickly though, e.g. the Windows Longhorn reset or the Gnome 3/MATE fork.

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