This has happened to my side project too. There's so much going on in the code now that I can't possibly grok it to make changes safely by myself any more. But I think that's OK. Because I don't have to grok it anymore.
I've been crafting beautiful code for almost 20 years - that itch is scratched. Now I just want to be productive and build cool stuff. AI is helping me make a better end-product in a fraction of the time. As long as codex understands what's going on in the ball of spaghetti, there's no problem. Sure - if I was working in enterprise then this is no good. But for personal projects and small indie shops, it's fine.
AI is just a new layer on top of the stack now. In the same way high-level languages are a layer on top of writing machine code manually. You just need to let go.
I've been crafting beautiful code for almost 20 years - that itch is scratched. Now I just want to be productive and build cool stuff. AI is helping me make a better end-product in a fraction of the time. As long as codex understands what's going on in the ball of spaghetti, there's no problem. Sure - if I was working in enterprise then this is no good. But for personal projects and small indie shops, it's fine.
AI is just a new layer on top of the stack now. In the same way high-level languages are a layer on top of writing machine code manually. You just need to let go.