A problem is AI by default is not very good at anything. It’s pretty mediocre. With a good harness and a lot of prompting/context - you can get it to spit something out that’s pretty good. Coders have been learning and fighting this fight for a couple of years now.

The issue is that it’s not just code - they suck at writing. Really bad. Unreadable, incoherent, messy.

Humans are also bad at judging the quality of things they themselves aren’t very good at. So a senior swe sees what claude spits out and says “This is trash.” And spends x amount of time getting it to not be trash. And Jr dev thinks “this is magic!” And pushes it to a PR.

So my theory is the people “writing” this AI slop think its great! But actually just aren’t very good at writing copy and don’t have the skill to recognize it and prompt their way out of it.

Or they don’t care. That’s an option as well.

PS for anyone reading, next time AI does something that you aren’t super familiar with that looks pretty good… maybe find an expert to review it.