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by m3047 44 days ago
In my opinion and experience that "normal" case is cognitive debt. Not having coding standards enforced: cognitive as well as technical debt. Missing / incorrect documentation. Uncertainty of provenance and what's actually running in production and how it gets there.

That's what you get in the "normal" case, and since the default attitude going into such situations should be Trust Nothing, if there was an LLM there I'd consult it. Magic 8-Ball, too. Rubber ducky? (Not that rubber ducky.) (I once wrote a dependency analyzer / oracle for PHP... in Perl.)