This isn’t new. Have we not already seen this everywhere already? The example at the top of the article (in a completely different field, no less) just goes to show humans had this particular sin nailed well before AI came along.
Bloated software and unstable code bases abound. This is especially prevalent in legacy code whose maintenance is handed down from one developer to the next, where their understanding of the code base differs from their predecessor’s. Combine that with pressures to ship now vs. getting it right, and you have the perfect recipe for an insipid form of technical debt.
Bloated software and unstable code bases abound. This is especially prevalent in legacy code whose maintenance is handed down from one developer to the next, where their understanding of the code base differs from their predecessor’s. Combine that with pressures to ship now vs. getting it right, and you have the perfect recipe for an insipid form of technical debt.