DmytriI hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
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Konrad Hinsen@dk That's a bit unfair to Ptolemy and friends. Their model was purely descriptive. Epicycles are much like Fourier analysis: you can describe any periodic orbit with them. There is no "world model" implied. Observe, fit, extrapolate, that's all. Hardly surprising, given how little people knew about the universe beyond Earth in those days.
Building software on an incorrect domain model is much worse, because today's techies *should* know better!