alt Hacker News"My project isn't open sourced yet" underlines the problem. There has been a massive explosion of software that works, but badly. The average user experience suffers as a result.
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I would bet every single dollar I have that if the source was shared, there would be 15 "big brains" showing up to point out how it's actually "bad".
I have seen a decent amount of clearly AI generated software that's useful, would likely not have been made without AI, and is better for for being AI generated. With AI, people make improvements that they would have never have bothered spending time to do manually. If anything, having uncharacteristically good "production value" in a clearly hobby project is how I typically spot AI use in projects that aren't obvious vibe coded slop.
The code itself may or may not be spaghetti. Not that I care as a user. User experience and code quality had never a particularly strong correlation even before AI.
Call me cynical, but I dont remember interacting with well engineered software, outside of pure, mainstream opensource repos.
Most of proprietary software is just crap, and always has been. The agents are not producing worse code than typical, demotivated, i-dont-care-what-i-am-building-i-wont-try-using-it corporate development teams have over the years. I'd even bet that because now making changes and fixes is so much easier, the user perceived quality will trend upwards for popular stuff.