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Right now there are thousands of apps getting built with AI that are going to work surprisingly well, will get embedded into all sorts of fundamental processes — and will start to perform unacceptably badly in two or three years. God knows what we do with this information but it seems clear we are setting up for a tsunami of horrible performance regressions

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Actually even in the years before AI code generation started, I noticed an increase in code bases that seem very well architected and engineered. But once you start using the code for a week you notice it's full of bugs and the consistent architecture is just make believe. Surely this problem is getting way worse with generated code that is optimized to read like it's very well engineered

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