CI/CD has been there for years. AI have made one more thing possible.
Continuous Refactoring.
And it solves one of the biggest pains of maintaining software - Legacy codebases.
Almost no company can sustainably keep the code 'latest + fresh' because new features need to be shipped. Example refactors:
→ No file longer than 600 lines.
→ No mystery numbers — every constant gets a name.
→ No silently swallowed errors.
→ No database queries inside web request handlers.
→ No queries in a loop (the classic N+1).
Not anymore. With these new modern AI tools, we have it in place. The codebase improves while features ship. No big-bang rewrites.
No "we'll clean it up later."
Just continuous refactoring. May god bless the innovators!