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What happens to technical debt when AI makes code cheap?

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Dear past Jenna, I know you're used to dealing with large, complex, legacy codebases riddled with technical debt. And for the longest time, that was kind of your thing. You'd unwind them, figure out how to insert a feature here without breaking functionality there, or discover that customers had co…

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