"30,000 code changes a day": critics warn Anthropic's AI-written codebase may crack
karmay007 · x · 2026-10-15
A widely shared post warns that Anthropic is churning out 30,000 code changes per day — "absurd by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude" — and risks a codebase nobody fully understands anymore.
Commenters pile on with a broader point: any company that doesn't review AI-generated code faces the same risk, since practitioners know how poorly AI writes maintainable code. A pointed debate on the quality risks of massive-scale AI coding.
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