How do AI code generators produce unmaintainable code that seems to work
AI code generators trained on mediocre code produce plausible-looking but inflexible output that degrades over time—a "genie tarpit" that sacrifices long-term changeability for short-term feature delivery. The gap between working code and maintainable code is where most teams get stuck, but genies tend to default even further left, into complexity that collapses under its own weight.
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