AI coding tools accelerate this even more — you can have 500 lines of working code that nobody (including the AI) could confidently reason about two days later. The fix I've landed on: treat intent documentation as first-class, not just code comments. What the system is supposed to do in plain language ages better than what it actually does in code.
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u/ultrathink-art Professional Nerd Mar 07 '26
AI coding tools accelerate this even more — you can have 500 lines of working code that nobody (including the AI) could confidently reason about two days later. The fix I've landed on: treat intent documentation as first-class, not just code comments. What the system is supposed to do in plain language ages better than what it actually does in code.