Yes
in my experience AI is working well also in large projects, and that many of the fears around maintenance and technical debt have not manifested for me in practice
user43928 on Hacker News
51 MRs, +50k -7k LOC
In the thread “How I use AI (Oct 2026)”, replying to this comment
Helped: Autonomous debugging with simulator for 2h+ reduced manual rounds.
Got in the way: Proposed ridiculous manual CI check instead of simple package manager feature.
… And that's with today's Opus 5.5, while the capabilities are now improving every other month. This ended up a pretty long comment, but I guess what I want to say is that in my experience AI is working well also in large projects, and that many of the fears around maintenance and technical debt have not manifested for me in practice.