Mastodawn

Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

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phaedr0s Jan 7

@pluralistic

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."

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Adam Trickett

@phaedr0s @pluralistic Couldn't agree more, good code is like good HiFi kit, it's the fewest possible number of lines to get the job done is usually best.

I spent days deleting thousands of lines of spaghetti from an output program last year. The original was years old and was evolving into a new form of life...

Errors are proportional to the number of lines, more lines usually equals more bugs...