On 8 May 2026, at 10:17, Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anquetil@inria.fr> wrote:

About AI and truck factor

This post https://www.shapeandship.ai/p/cheap-to-build-costly-to-keep argues that with AI coding the truck factor tends toward 0...
In a post-mortem, this surfaces as "nobody knew this code existed," which is worse than "only one person knew."

They talk about "comprehension debt" (evolution of the technical debt concept)

cheers

nicolas

On 2026-05-07 22:01, Koen De Hondt wrote:

Dear Pharo users and developers,

I posted a first article in a series about using AI in Pharo development. After seeing the world embrace agentic development tools, I decided it was time to look into them and see how they can be used for software development in Pharo.

https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/24

As always, all feedback is welcome.

Happy reading!

Ciao,
Koen

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Nicolas Anquetil
Evref team -- Inria Lille