Because AI makes generating code free, we are seeing a massive inflation in the volume of code pushed to repositories.
But AI-generated code carries hidden debt. It hallucinates expensive third-party APIs or introduces subtle security vulnerabilities.
If you hire engineers who are great at prompting AI but terrible at auditing it, you are building a codebase that is technically insolvent. You are accumulating maintenance liabilities faster than you are creating asset value.
We need to shift to the "Audit Interview." Hand a candidate flawed AI-generated code and ask them to find the hidden memory bomb.
We are moving from an era of construction to an era of curation.
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