>But we’ll gladly excuse the existing 2 million lines of spaghetti code because of past deadlines and lack of resources to pay down the tech debt today.

Well, if the AI is so efficient, it should be able to cut down on tech debt, no? Be a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

The issue is that the tech debt was there for years, likely before most people started there. The AI is in their control to utilize or refuse.