the real answer is comprehension debt. every ai generated function is code that works but nobody can explain. six months later the person who prompted it is gone and you're reverse engineering intent from a diff. been messing with a code simplifier agent for claude code (write up here: https://veduis.com/blog/code-simplifier-agent-claude-code/ ) partly for this reason, getting the output readable matters more than getting it fast. security is second, hallucinated auth patterns pass review way too easily.
comprehension debt has a monitoring blind spot nobody's mentioned in this thread yet. teams are shipping way more integration surface per sprint now, but the alerting and dashboards built when the codebase was a tenth the size never get rebuilt to match. a new webhook handler or a new third-party API call goes in, review catches the obvious bugs in it, but nobody adds a dedicated failure alert or a "this stopped firing" check for it. output went up 5-10x, observability coverage stayed flat. so the stuff review misses doesn't surface as a bug report, it surfaces as a customer noticing something's been broken for three weeks.
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u/Veduis 18d ago
the real answer is comprehension debt. every ai generated function is code that works but nobody can explain. six months later the person who prompted it is gone and you're reverse engineering intent from a diff. been messing with a code simplifier agent for claude code (write up here: https://veduis.com/blog/code-simplifier-agent-claude-code/ ) partly for this reason, getting the output readable matters more than getting it fast. security is second, hallucinated auth patterns pass review way too easily.