>“People have talked about technical debt for a long time, and now we have a brand new credit card here that is going to allow us to accumulate technical debt i

>“People have talked about technical debt for a long time, and now we have a brand new credit card here that is going to allow us to accumulate technical debt in ways we were never able to do before,” said Armando Solar-Lezama, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I think there is a risk of accumulating lots of very shoddy code written by a machine,” he said, adding that companies will have to rethink methodologies around how they can work in tandem with the new tools’ capabilities to avoid that. I agree, it's very concerning that the opacity of ML models is now leaking into large codebases and making them potentially even less comprehensible.