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Published by Sourcegraph Blog (T1.5 source). The original is at https://sourcegraph.com/blog/owning-a-codebase.

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Sourcegraph blog post arguing that although AI coding agents now produce more code than ever, owning and understanding large, decades-old codebases remains one of the hardest jobs in software.

Frames the undiminished difficulty of codebase ownership against rising AI code output, useful context for teams integrating agents into legacy systems.

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