Grady Booch: Dissolving institutional knowledge and adding AI slop to codebases never ends well
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-11-14
Software engineering pioneer Grady Booch issued a pointed warning: dissolving institutional knowledge and adding AI slop to a large and complex codebase never ends well.
The remark captures a growing concern in AI-assisted development — losing deep system understanding from senior engineers while piling on AI-generated code raises long-term maintenance costs and quality risks.
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