Comment by jlawrence6809

99% of software out there is a huge ball of mud even if the senior/architect/<insert egotistical title here> started out by building it with the sexiest abstractions. Things just tend to rot and complexify. Software engineers never figured out a way to prevent that, though it is easy to be fooled by the preening and pontificating we do to make ourselves seem like the "very serious professional engineer who cares about code quality very much". I'd keep using AI if it's working for you.