Nothing, the people worrying about AI tech debt on HN have been worrying about it for years. 2024 HN threads had the same comments.
replyThe reality is that models just keep getting better and are very good at cleaning up the debt they created. The "tech debt" bill never came due. It won't.
I’m not worried about tech debt, that’ll be my career making money from the laziness of vibe devs.
reply> The "tech debt" bill never came due.
Companies paying $200k a day for coding models to churn on what the coding models are messing up is one thing.
I’m not even worrying about tech debt, I’m talking full on defects, production incidents, security holes, and reputational damage.
Do you think the average dev is better than frontier models when it comes to spotting defects and security holes?
replyUntil some catastrophic data loss event or data leak that nobody understands or has any mitigations for. Oops! Guess bankruptcy and prison time are the ultimate uncaught exceptions.
replyIt's not 2024. Models today are far better than humans at spotting the bugs that would cause this.
replyI remember this being said as far back as 2022 yet we're still here fixing things manually when the models inevitably code themselves into a hairball convoluted enough they can't find a way out.
replyNo one at a FAANG is fixing things manually these days.
replyIf it turns into a hairball, just have a few agents rewrite it.