The last honest job in software.

AI made shipping code almost free. A feature that took a sprint takes an afternoon. Anyone can push now, and everyone does.

That was supposed to be the win. Instead it surfaced the thing nobody wanted said out loud: writing code was never the hard part.

Half of engineering was never building. It is answering.

Answering the bug with a root cause. Answering the incident at 2am. Answering the question of how it works, the escalation with a fix shipped the hour it is needed, the rot with a delete. It eats half the week and most of what software costs across its life. Companies staff whole teams for it and still cap it, so it does not swallow the rest.

AI automated the building half. The answering half it only made bigger.

Every generated line lands on the answering side, and that side still runs on people. Slop that almost works, dead code nobody goes back for, tech debt compounding under the speed. Six hours per incident. Half of every week. And shipping slows to whatever pace the answering can hold.

Computers learned to calculate, to communicate, to think. They never learned to heal.

breken is software that heals itself.

—broeken▚▚