"Many of us remember the classic scene from Fantasia: Mickey Mouse, the Sorcerer's Apprentice, enchants a broom to carry his water. What begins as a brilliant shortcut quickly descends into chaos, with an unstoppable, unthinking army of brooms flooding the workshop. Mickey, the apprentice, had velocity but zero control. This nostalgic cartoon is the most accurate and pressing metaphor for software development today. The era of AI in software development is here, promising exponential progress."
"The landmark 2025 GitClear AI Code Quality Research, which analyzed 211 million lines of code, provides the statistical proof. The report shows developers are spending more time cleaning up the AI's mess. The rate of "code churn" - flawed code that needs to be fixed or deleted within two weeks has nearly doubled. At the same time, the report found the amount of copy-pasted code has surged by 48%."
AI coding agents generate large volumes of code rapidly but often without oversight, structure, or intent. Developers are spending increasing time repairing flawed AI-generated code rather than building new features. Code churn — code needing fix or deletion within two weeks — has nearly doubled. Copy-pasted code has surged by 48 percent, increasing duplication and error-proneness. The unchecked use of AI accelerates technical debt and creates unmaintainable black-box components. The immediate danger is the growing maintenance burden from today’s uncontrolled AI-generated code.
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