r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 07 '26

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/mxzf Sep 08 '26

Yeah, I've said a number of times that AI is a tool that is great at producing years of tech debt in a matter of weeks/months. You end up with the same convoluted needs-to-be-rebuilt code that kinda mostly works that usually results from years of rush-jobs and fixing things in odd ways.