All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

@baldur the software crisis is definitely what enabled vibe coding, I feel.

When making software was an artisan process, it was hard for corporations to scale it and treat programmers like cogs in a machine.

So they've been trying more and more to fit software development into a neat mold, essentially dumbing down the process, to the point where making an app has become "just slap together some libraries and hey presto".

That has 100% laid the foundation for LLM-generated code, I feel.

@Tijn @baldur Absolutely this. As well as things like Docker / K8s making it so that software creation and system administration boiled down to "If it breaks, throw it away and get a fresh copy," which is just not the way to do anything you want to be reliable and secure.