Software Architecture Insights
Is AI Code Automation Contributing to Code Complexity?
· 12 min · Episode 15
Show notes
In March 2024, Lee wrote about a GitClear report that had analyzed 153 million lines of changed code, and said the early numbers on AI-assisted code were worrying.
GitClear kept counting. The newest report covers 623 million changes through the first half of 2026.
So this episode is a check on his own words: what he got right, what he got wrong, and the thing he missed completely. The metric he led with in 2024 turned out to be the least alarming one in the report. The one he underplayed got worse than he expected.
In this episode:
• The churn number that didn't double, and what projections…
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