Bruno Bord

"Code is liability, not an asset", by @pluralistic

> They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities.
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> "Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well.
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> The longer a computer system has been running, the more tech debt it represents.

(there are so many paragraphs I want to quote)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Jan 19 at 5:26pmWeb
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@brunobord @pluralistic More (shitty) code is just added threat surface. It's like the way I think about consumer IOT. Nobody's fucking refrigerator needs and IP address. We don't need 10,000 times more shitty code, we don't need 10,000 new data centres and 10,000 more nodes of nonsense.