The article intersects very well with AI tools poised to analyze the code and try to understand it for us. Software tools already exist to deal with large code bases, for example, right now, we use software tools (valgrind, coverity) to help us understand the code. Lead architects use analysis tools as well as developers eyeballs to vet the code. Soon enough an AI tool will guide developers on understanding their own codebase and manage it. The same goes along with infrastructure, ChatGPT can guide you right now with examples on how to create a AWS service from scratch.
So yes, the codebase is growing fast and with it the tools to manage it.
So yes, the codebase is growing fast and with it the tools to manage it.