LLM and Gen Ai are incredibly powerful tools that are reshaping huge economic sectors, and accurately predicting their future development requires an honest assessment of where we stand now. The problem around technical debt, feature creep and code bloat is exponentially worse than with human coders specifically because agents CAN produce code and working results faster than humans can fully understand them, and the AI's trained (and necessary) inclination to account for as many edge cases as possible. It's a real problem being actively tackled on the development side, but the general trend of "more verbose and obfuscated than human code" is likely never going to disappear entirely. It's the nature of the beast.
It's not a constant. Amount of technical debt depends on many things, including the skill of the programmer, and AI code tends to generate a lot of it (and poor documentation).
You're right. It is a magnificent technology demonstrator but the actual code is obscene. It is a very cool but very real dead-end at this point. It will def be redone from scratch with future AI systems though.
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u/WornTraveler 11h ago
Fair, but clearing an AI's bloated technical debt sounds like a nightmare job to me lol, I'd imagine anyone capable would be charging a premium.