Comment by koyote

This is the only way to work with AI and ensure your code is still (somewhat) maintainable in a year+.

Anyone who's ever directed AI at a very large legacy code base will have noticed that AI just gets dumber and slower the worse (larger + inconsistent) the code base gets (just like us humans do). The big difference is that with AI you can get to the point where the code base is an unmaintainable legacy mess in a fraction of the time that it used to take. Directing architecture is the only way to mitigate this to some extent.