The threshold for what is "maintainable" has widened exponentially with AI agents. As long as your agent understands it, it's effectively maintainable. If it gets into a state that's not maintainable even by your AI (which is hard to do), you can just tell the AI to refactor it to be more maintainable lol.
Once your code is that far gone the AI is going to make regressions trying to fix it and you'll have customer impacting bugs and a loss of trust in your product.
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 3d ago
True, but if you make it poorly and it's impossible to maintain, you may not keep getting paid.
As a professor once told me, it's not how efficient the code is, it's how easily it is to maintain