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AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens

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AI agents can navigate messy, complex code that would confuse human developers, but this capability is quietly eliminating a crucial safeguard. When humans got lost in tangled code, that confusion triggered refactoring. Agents never get lost, so teams keep piling on complexity until no human can understand their own systems anymore.

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