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NoTool not named · 27 Feb 2026

We went from production breakages every couple of months to every couple of days

aeriose on Hacker News

production breakages every couple of days

In the thread “Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?”

Got in the way: Unreviewed AI-generated code with hidden bugs and false-positive tests.

… Literally if anyone spent the time reading the code you’d see it was a ticking bomb. We went from production breakages every couple of months to every couple of days. It’s so bad but no one is saying the hard thing that less strong engineers need to be restricted on their use of these tools.