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It ends like this: all codebases become unmaintainable spaghetti after agentic AI spends years on it. Then after every agent in existence will spend minimum 24 hours reading the codebase to add a simple feature, the software is abandoned.


I believe most codebases were "unmaintainable spaghetti" even before LLMs: depends on how you define it though.

To be, it means expensive to evolve.


no way it's going to happen




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