About AI and truck factor
This post https://www.shapeandship.ai/p/cheap-to-build-costly-to-keep
argues that with AI coding the truck factor tends toward 0...
/In a post-mortem, this surfaces as "nobody knew this code existed,"
which is worse than "only one person knew."/
They talk about "comprehension debt" (evolution of the technical debt
concept)
cheers
nicolas
On 2026-05-07 22:01, Koen De Hondt wrote:
Dear Pharo users and developers,
I posted a first article in a series about using AI in Pharo
development. After seeing the world embrace agentic development tools,
I decided it was time to look into them and see how they can be used
for software development in Pharo.
https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/24
As always, all feedback is welcome.
Happy reading!
Ciao,
Koen
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Nicolas Anquetil
Evref team -- Inria Lille
