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AI Codebase Cleanup: Essential Strategies for Senior Engineers
Roughly 8,000 startups built production apps with Cursor, Replit Agent, Lovable, or Bolt in 2024 and 2025. Most of them now need cleanup work, and the engagements run $50K to $500K. Veracode's 2025 analysis found ~50% of AI-generated code contains security flaws and AI-co-authored code has 1.7x more
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