And, on top of that, the first few fixes will actually work! They will look good to PMs and to the business! Look at the velocity!
The velocity is good enough to scale back the size of the team, it's good enough to mandate a pace that is only possible with AI doing automated submission and review of PRs, it's good enough to not have any kind of formal design work. Just ship.
After several months of this, any additional bug fix by the AI is just adding to the existing morass of tech debt created by the AI. Slowly but surely, the AI will stop being able to submit a PR that doesn't result in a regression. The people who actually care about software quality aren't on new projects; those are run by juniors and copilot. Nope, they're going to be stuck on maintenance of this garbage.
And meanwhile, that new team working on new feature X is moving so quickly... better give them a raise!
The people who suffer here are, of course, the non-marginal user, who will have to contend with every new feature breaking every other existing feature that they like in the software.
The velocity is good enough to scale back the size of the team, it's good enough to mandate a pace that is only possible with AI doing automated submission and review of PRs, it's good enough to not have any kind of formal design work. Just ship.
After several months of this, any additional bug fix by the AI is just adding to the existing morass of tech debt created by the AI. Slowly but surely, the AI will stop being able to submit a PR that doesn't result in a regression. The people who actually care about software quality aren't on new projects; those are run by juniors and copilot. Nope, they're going to be stuck on maintenance of this garbage.
And meanwhile, that new team working on new feature X is moving so quickly... better give them a raise!
The people who suffer here are, of course, the non-marginal user, who will have to contend with every new feature breaking every other existing feature that they like in the software.