Vicki Boykis: We need to be deleting more code in the AI era
vboykis · x · 2026-09-02
The post compares bad code in a codebase to kudzu, an invasive plant that is hard to remove once introduced. In the AI era where adding code is easy, the author argues that we must delete code more aggressively to avoid drowning in generated complexity. She shares a personal example where she removed a machine learning-powered hashtag feature from her blog after realizing it was rarely used.
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