^ this

Using AI leads to code churn and code churn is bad for the health of the project.

If you can’t keep the code comprehensible and maintainable then you end up with a worse off product where either everything breaks all the time, or the time it takes to release each new feature becomes exponentially longer, or all of your programmers become burnt out and no one wants to touch the thing.

You just get to the point where you have to stop and start the project all over again, while the whole time people are screaming for the thing that was promised to them back at the start.

It’s exactly the same thing that happens when western managers try to outsource to “cheap” programming labor overseas, it always ends up costing more, taking longer, and ending in disaster

This is why you’re meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you “what”, your comments tell you “why”.

Here’s a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124