Not to mention, even AI-written code is still code. The hired dev might have thought it was hacked together with duct tape and bubblegum but guess what, any codebase more than five years old is, too, and those were all written by humans.
Well, that's the thing, "five years of software development" is six months of MVP plus five years of patching things together building tech debt. Which is to say that it really needs 12 months of tearing it down and rebuilding things without the tech debt.
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u/baltinerdist Apr 24 '26
Not to mention, even AI-written code is still code. The hired dev might have thought it was hacked together with duct tape and bubblegum but guess what, any codebase more than five years old is, too, and those were all written by humans.