Engineering leaders have always known the cost of maintaining and securing dead or unused code is expensive. What’s changed is who pays the bill.

Six months ago, our team tripled from one engineer to three. But our output didn't triple—it exploded. Each of us was running five agents in parallel, opening pull requests faster than we'd ever seen.

Sitting in a packed auditorium at Edinburgh’s prestigious New Town Assembly Rooms back in May, The Next Web was among a slew of Scotland’s top tech startups, entrepreneurs, academics, and money-men to ...