Been doing IT for the past 300 years
Your favorite thought leader
Tired from having correct opinions all the time
If you willingly use AI I don't think you're cool.
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Need to disappear to this location for like 3 years
(Hoyle Board Games/Card Games Cabin, circa 1997/1998 for PC)
2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism
2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms
People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.
And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.
Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?
It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.
So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
Daniel
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