A Year After the 100% AI Mandate, Nobody Understands the Code
A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code
A developer describes what happened after leadership ordered a full AI-coding mandate: agents churn out code faster than anyone can review it, helpers get reimplemented in four places, and the codebase drifts into a black box. Commenters split between those who say the mess is inevitable and those who argue the fix is documentation, guardrails, and slowing down to a sustainable pace.
Agents create code really really fast and produce 90% good code with 10% madness. If you're not weeding out the madness as you go, the next task starts with slightly mad code and makes it a little madder.