The Maintainability Crisis: How AI-Generated Code is Becoming a Hidden Liability

As AI code generation reaches mainstream adoption—with 41% of code written in 2025 being AI-generated—the industry faces an unprecedented crisis: developers who cannot explain their own code, and systems designed to discourage understanding. Recent security breaches like Lovable's CVE-2025-48757, affecting 170 applications and exposing user data and API keys, demonstrate that the speed gains from AI coding come at a profound cost to software quality and security.