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LLMs are quite good at writing codemods from specs though, so certain specific kinds of tech debt are fairly automatable (think migrating between major library versions and removing deprecated API dependencies). If that’s the kind of tech debt they mostly have to deal with, this seems realistic.

"If everything is technical debt, then nothing is technical debt"

hello, unexpected duke's mayo person in the tech replies

Frankensteining a bunch of random code scraped off the internet together without any human thought is a great way to reduce technical debt.

God, I'd be a lot more accepting of AI if they just stopped with all the exaggerations and lies for once. It's not a magical thinking machine, it's just statistical next-word prediction. It could be useful for a few things, but it's not worth destroying society over.

surely the fact they've had more and more incidents lately is not at all related