About this episode

The episode discusses a decade of unresolved tech debt in Adam's codebase and the decision to hand it over to an AI agent.

For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundred functions. Fifteen hundred files. The kind of job that gets solemnly nodded at in architecture meetings and quietly dies on the roadmap — every single year. So he stopped waiting for a volunteer and handed it to an AI agent instead. Claude's problem now. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/249-10-years-of-tech-debt/

More episodes of Working Code

• 258: On the AI of It All · May 7, 2026 · 57 min
• 256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us · April 23, 2026 · 47 min
• 255: AI in the Streets · April 9, 2026 · 1h 1m
• 254: Claudependent · April 2, 2026 · 53 min
• 253: The Adversarial Agents Are Arguing Again · March 26, 2026 · 1h 6m
• 252: Meet Showbot · March 19, 2026 · 1h 3m

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Working Code podcast page.