The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
4.00T1 sourcemartinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler)
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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html.
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SummaryA Thoughtworks CTO describes building a 150,000-line application (mostly Rust, with TypeScript and Terraform) entirely using AI agents, primarily Claude Code with some Cursor, without personally reading or reviewing the generated code, as part of exploring agentic engineering.
Why it mattersA concrete large-scale account of fully agent-driven development from a senior practitioner, useful for calibrating what current agents can produce without human code review.
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