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One team is merging 60 PRs per developer per week, spanning thousands of lines of AI-generated code with almost no meaningful human review. The result: technical debt, recurring bugs, fragile architecture, and a codebase becoming impossible to maintain.
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The question from LGTM Bro hits a raw nerve: an engineering team where individual contributors are merging 60 PRs per release cycle — each spanning 20 to 70 files and thousands of lines of AI-generated code — with little to no meaningful human review. The inevitable results are already appearing: technical debt, recurring bugs, architectural inconsistencies, and a codebase becoming progressively harder to maintain. Wes frames this with two archetypal AI-era team strategies: the 'feature cannon' (ship everything, worry later) versus the more considered approach of using AI's horsepower to finally clear years of accumulated debt. His punchline is blunt: the problems being described are not new, and neither are the solutions. What AI has done is speedrun the same failure modes that previously took six years to manifest — compressing them into months. Scott adds the damning detail that AI actively resists removing code even when instructed to, making the bloat problem self-perpetuating. The hosts don't offer a silver-bullet fix; instead they note that good software engineering principles — tests, linting, shared utilities, meaningful review — are exactly as relevant as they ever were, just more urgent.
One team reported individual contributors merging 60 PRs per release cycle (one week), spanning 20-70 files and thousands of lines of AI-generated code.
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