Your Codebase Is Not Agent-Maintainable and That Is Your Next Big Problem

Mike spent three weeks trying to get AI agents to maintain his Flink pipeline. The agents were not the problem. The code was not agent-maintainable. This is a new standard, and your codebase probably fails it.

Agent-maintainable code is code that an AI agent can reliably modify and extend without introducing subtle defects: conventional structure, explicit boundaries, comprehensive tests, and documented business rules.