[ymyms]

All code is technical debt though. We can't spend infinite hours finding the absolute minima of technical debt introduced for a change, so it is just finding the right balance. That balance is highly dependent on a huge amount of factors: how core is the system, what is the system used for, what stage of development is the system, etc.

[trollbridge]

I spend about half my day working on LLM-generated code and half my day working on non-LLM-generated code, some written by senior devs, some written by juniors.

The LLM-generated code is by far the worst technical debt. And a fair bit of that time is spent debugging subtle issues where it doesn't quite do what was prompted.