Blog: AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens.

The threshold for when code needs to be refactored is higher now.

That's because agents can reason about more at a time than humans could, so they can be productive even before a refactor.

AI written code will tend to be refactored less often than it "should" be, since agents will happily slog through it.

When it's all humans, the humans slogging through complain about it and either fix it, or complain to their manager.