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Every large code base goes to shit unless you have a very strict bdfl at the top.

AI is nothing special or new in this regard. It just gives a single guy the velocity to ruin a codebase at the rate of a full enterprise team at double the speed.

A shitty code base still makes money, and that's all that will ever count for the majority of the employed developers, those who don't blog.

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