“AI FIRST” AND THE BUS FACTOR OF 0

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The "Bus Factor" measures the risk of losing knowledge if key team members leave. With the rise of "AI first" approaches using tools like ChatGPT, many people are becoming comfortable with a Bus Factor of zero, where no one understands the AI-generated code. This reliance on LLMs for code generation makes maintaining and debugging software extremely difficult.