What Vicki Boykis thinks about software quality
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Vicki Boykis has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAn app feature, once added to a codebase, can be extremely hard to remove.
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Their wordsBut in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don't constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases.
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Their wordsNeedless to say, I'm not sure this is ready for production software development quite yet.
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