alt Hacker News> But yes, the coding agents will not magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to.
But that's not actually a change. Humans wouldn't magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to (and maybe not even if you do). You have to monitor them and train them, carefully, basically forever.
I guess, if I'm reading this correctly, you're saying that we'll need to monitor and train the agents, carefully, basically forever?