AI Wrote Half My Codebase. The Maintenance Bill Showed Up in Month Three.

AI made the first draft free. I treated that as the win. The bill arrived later, not in dollars, in the parts of the system nobody on the team fully understood anymore. I like AI coding tools. I use them every day. I've shipped more open-source projects in the last few months than in years prior, and a lot of that is leverage. Scaffolding is...