Christine Lemmer-WebberCan't tell you how many times I have heard about a friend's company needing to send an apology email to customers about downtime and flakiness due to AIgen commits that were poorly reviewed and misunderstood
Hell even Microsoft did it https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
The slow part of software is NOT the initial generation of software. It's the maintenance and review of it.
If your management is pushing for 10x programmer output, hell even 40% more programmer output, what they're asking for is a stability crisis. There's no way around it. That's how it is right now.
ǝʌɐp@cwebber People would be right to point out that the start of the quality decline seemed to precede coding agents, but I think it's a bit of a perfect storm. My personal theory has been that it started with US interest rates going back up and austerity measures being introduced across the industry. Coding agents really meshed with that because everybody has been looking for areas to cut cost.