Your human crafted go fast and break things code is not equivalent to what I was talking about.
Look at OpenClaw for an example of what I’m talking about. That’s what happens when you let AI go wild without review or understanding. It’s half a million lines of code and it’s 2 months old. When AI adds a new feature it has no choice but to add and change tens of thousands of lines of code because it’s a spaghetti nightmare.
AI cannot refactor OpenClaw without making massive functionality changes. It might be possible for a human to spend a very significant amount of time guiding it to clean it up. But if you aren’t reading the code in the first place you ain’t gonna do that.
Without human guidance and review AI will absolutely create mountains of slop that are beyond its ability to maintain.
The trick is to make a good plan first. And to not rewrite your entire codebase all at once. But that advice is older than my all of my kids combined.