DeepMind researcher: agent-generated code stays unmaintainable until costs drop
rbhar90 · x · 2026-11-11
A Google DeepMind researcher argues AI coding agents still produce unmaintainable code: only Anthropic/OpenAI insiders with unlimited token budgets can wrangle agentic codebases, while ordinary devs can't afford it. Until agentic coding gets much cheaper, real-world impact will remain muted—individual devs with Claude Code rather than agent swarms running entire codebases.
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