alt Hacker NewsThis type of comment retroactively assigns human written code a quality which it has never had. "No one wants to build on code that is 99% accurate or bloated" - my friend have you ever used Windows??
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forgetfreeman • yesterday at 10:10 PM
While there are certainly more examples than either of us can count of shitty half-baked codebases claiming quality code has never existed is pretty wild. With humans it's at least something to be aspired to and occasionally even accomplished.
ern • yesterday at 11:37 PM
2016: "the median developer is too stupid to do FizzBuzz correctly"
2026: "the median developer is a craftsman whose work is being replaced by AI slop"
Of course Windows is garbage. But this is the sort of defeatist argument that always shows up among both AI optimists and places where corruption is rampant. Corruption and incorrectness is established as an inescapable baseline, and then greater systematic corruption (like LLMs producing constantly sub-par code) is justified.