By Anna Hartung — H-Studio Berlin
There's a comfortable story going around: AI coding tools made architecture less important. If you can generate a feature in thirty seconds and regenerate it when it breaks, who cares about clean boundaries? Just vibe it.
The data from 2024–2025 tells a less comfortable story. We're producing code faster than ever — and a measurable amount of it is the kind you pay for later. AI didn't make architecture optional. It made the lack of it cheaper to create and more expensive to live with.
What the data actually shows
GitClear's 2025 report, analyzing over 200 million changed lines of code, found a few things worth sitting with:
