Comment by rzmmm
13 hours ago
I have used AI agents extensively for coding and my experience is that it's fine for prototypes, but in large projects like this there is risk that the codebase becomes unmaintainable.
13 hours ago
I have used AI agents extensively for coding and my experience is that it's fine for prototypes, but in large projects like this there is risk that the codebase becomes unmaintainable.
In large projects there is always a risk, if not an inevitability, that a code base becomes unmaintanable by some definition. AI surfaces this faster, but also AI lowers the cost of testing and refactoring. AI gives a linear multiplier in producing solutions, but complexity gives a quadratic increase in problems. The art of producing software has always been in choosing what not to do.
This is a very popular opinion that is sort of obsolete now in my opinion.
It was a valid concern last year. We have seen tremendous progress on this in the last 4-6 months.
Even if your initial prototypes are unmaintainable slop, the state of the art models are fairly good at refactoring and fixing things.