AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That?
The author argues that using AI to write code creates a dangerous disconnect between the developer and their software. While AI increases efficiency, it removes the essential process of understanding the code, which is necessary for long-term maintenance and quality control.
Why it matters
As AI-assisted coding becomes standard, developers face a crisis of technical debt and a loss of fundamental system knowledge.
Marty Lamb | August 25, 2026 Back to Index
Coding agents keep pushing the cost of writing software close to zero. This is valuable because writing software has historically been a big part of the work needed to ship software. For a lot of projects, testing, documenting, packaging, and other code-adjacent work have consumed much less effort, when they're done at all.
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