> This was already happening before AI. But now, a lot more companies that previously might have taken many years to reach an unmaintainable state can get there

> This was already happening before AI. But now, a lot more companies that previously might have taken many years to reach an unmaintainable state can get there in just a few months. And who is going to want to fix that? Maintainers and systems people were the first to be laid off, by management who never valued the "cost centre" they represented, and the few remaining are trying to fight gravity and will likely take the blame when the systems they oversee fall in a heap. Any new hire knows they will spend a few years building a mental map of institutional knowledge, only to be tossed on the scrapheap as soon as the system is working again. If companies want to develop internal software as they appear to, they need to stop defining business processes in code, and certainly stop defining them in Jira tickets. Middle management has outsourced so much of their work to the software or operations departments and now its about to backfire.