AI Kills the 'Bus Factor', Reshaping Software Evaluation
Elijah_Meeks · x · 2026-08-12
The author argues that AI's ability to understand code has effectively killed the 'Bus Factor' in software engineering.
As long as an organization has the budget to pay for AI, it can rely on AI to understand and maintain existing codebases. This opens up an entirely new way to evaluate software and software development processes.
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