AI built your codebase in 2 months. Who's going to maintain it?

Cloudflare shipped EmDash in April 2026 — an open-source CMS written in TypeScript, built in ~2 months by AI coding agents. It's a genuinely impressive achievement and a real signal of where the industry is going. But it also surfaces a question that the AI coding conversation has been avoiding: what happens after the AI ships the first version? The "plans that read well don't build well" problem There's a failure mode I keep seeing in AI-assisted codebases. The initial build is fast. The prose