Section 066 · Chapter 9, Generated Code Changes the Job
AI-Generated Code Maintainability and Architecture Debt
AI-generated code can make fast progress while quietly increasing complexity, duplication, and long-term maintenance cost.
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What to do
- Ask the AI or a developer to make a small follow-up change.
- Define runnable checks that exercise generated code, maintainability, and architecture debt.
- Set acceptable outcomes and blocker failures for generated code, maintainability, and architecture debt before running the evaluation.
Evidence to preserve
- Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for generated code, maintainability, architecture debt, generated code maintainability architecture debt needed to reproduce work on AI-Generated Code Maintainability and Architecture Debt.
- Report results for generated code, maintainability, architecture debt, generated code maintainability architecture debt by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.
Expert note
When the system matters, evaluate AI-generated code for architectural fit, duplication, coupling, ownership boundaries, naming consistency, cognitive complexity, and change amplification. Technical debt is a quality issue because it raises future defect probability.
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Jason Arbon. "AI-Generated Code Maintainability and Architecture Debt." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 66.
https://jarbon.ai/testing-ai/knowledge/ch066-generated-code-maintainability-architecture-debt.html