--- title: But also: Why does software seem buggier lately? | daily.dev description: A recap of Dex Hory's talk at AI Engineers World Fair argues that AI coding tools are degrading software quality. Since teams adopted AI coding assistants, PR... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/but-also-why-does-software-seem-buggier-lately--k0zzjxce8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: But also: Why does software seem buggier lately? | daily.dev og:description: A recap of Dex Hory's talk at AI Engineers World Fair argues that AI coding tools are degrading software quality. Since teams adopted AI coding assistants, PR... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/but-also-why-does-software-seem-buggier-lately--k0zzjxce8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K0ZZjXCE8.png og:image:alt: But also: Why does software seem buggier lately? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # But also: Why does software seem buggier lately? **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of Dex Hory's talk at AI Engineers World Fair argues that AI coding tools are degrading software quality. Since teams adopted AI coding assistants, PR review quality has dropped and bugs per developer have increased. The core problem is that AI agents optimize for surface-level correctness (does it run, do tests pass?) while real codebases fail slowly through architectural drift and eroding maintainability. The solution proposed is 'turning the lights back on' — humans must still read their code, review design decisions, and own the entire system rather than delegating understanding to AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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