Team mandated 100% AI coding for a year; codebase tripled and nobody can explain most of it
What happened
A Reddit user, gato5fication, describes a team that required 100% AI coding. For about six months delivery went up, but agents kept re-implementing helper functions that already existed. Two colleagues who had reviewed every PR carefully left in the spring. A year in, the codebase is about three times its original size and nobody can explain how most of it runs. CodeRabbit comments now get marked resolved without review.
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- Hacker News front pageA year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code
Reddit 用户 gato5fication 自述，团队实行 100% AI 编码要求一年后，代码库规模约为原来的 3x，已无人能解释大部分代码如何运行。前约 6 个月交付量增加，但智能体不断重复实现已有辅助函数，曾认真审查每个 PR 的 2 名同事在春季离开，如今 coderabbit 的评论也被直接标记为已解决。
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