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Title: It Ain’t Broke: Why Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Matt Pocock, AI Hero @Mattpocockuk (English (Auto-Generated))
Authors: AI Engineer
Category:articles
Number of Highlights: 2
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg&rw_yt_language=en
Date: 2026-04-23
Last Highlighted: 2026-04-23
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Well, I don’t think this is right. I think code is not cheap. In fact, bad
code is the most expensive it’s ever been. Because if you have a codebase that’s hard to change, you’re not able to take all of the bounty that AI can offer because AI in a good codebase actually does really, really well. And this means good code bases matter more than ever, which means software fundamentals matter more than ever. That’s the thesis of this talk
Note: This was the whole point at the Summit keynote.
that the AI didn’t do what I wanted