alt Hacker News> yes, the coding agents will not magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to.
There's the rub. It requires knowing about and caring about maintainability. And a lot of the people who "haven't written a line of code since 2025" don't care
“Claude, make this code maintainable.”
I’m beginning to believe that if this was a “solvable” problem then the billions of dollars poured into coding agents would have solved it by now.