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AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud

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Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with them . It seems like there isn’t very much you can do about them. But now that we have AI coding agents, maybe there is. Look, we all start out wit…

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  1. 2026-08-27 09:00 · InfoWorld AI
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