> What's the difference between a messy codebase created by a genAI, and a messy codebase where all the original authors of the code have moved on and aren't available to ask questions?
Messy codebases made by humans are known to be a bad thing that causes big problems for software that needs to be maintained and changed. Much effort goes into preventing them and cleaning them up.
If you want to work with AI code systems successfully then you better apply these exact same efforts. Documentation, composition, validation, evaluation, review and so on.
Messy codebases made by humans are known to be a bad thing that causes big problems for software that needs to be maintained and changed. Much effort goes into preventing them and cleaning them up.