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Thanks for the message, is exactly what I have in my brain and how I'm seeing it unfold. I'm lucky to be part of different codebases, +200 engineers codebase in a 10 years old company and code, +5 engineers on fresh code. My personal projects, that are beyond POC's, real users, hundreds of commits. The LLM agent sweet spot is the last one, they are perfect, as I can contain most of the knowledge in my brain of how it works in/out. Speed is insane as a solo developer. Then the 5 engineers codebase, is also really good, but here you already start to see the problems, thanks to agents you don't even need to care how it works, I have been working on it for +6 months, it uses TRPC and I don't even know (I don't care) how TRPC works. You feel that no one in the team really knows how stuff works at 100% (fresh codebase, we have build this ourselves!!). Then there is the old codebase with +200 engineers, this is the worst of all of them, you described it perfectly, a bottomless pit of tech debt. This codebase before agents was an old non-typescript one, it was not perfect, but you could build a mental model and understand it perfectly after a few weeks working on it. Now, is a hot-mess of code duplication and the quality is degrading faster and faster as the code gets worse and the Claude Code adoption increases within the engineering team. Not sure what will be the outcome of all this, but I wouldn't be surprised if some company wakes up in 2027 with a codebase that maintenance and development has increased by x100 fold thanks to Agents. |