What I think is also good about the piece is that it shows how using this tech eventually funnels people down a particular direction. This is captured also by this exchange on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/7d8dxv/i_used_ai_it_worked_i_hated_it#c_7jirfk

The story that people start with vs where they go is very different:

- They're really just for experts, and are assistants, they don't write the code for you
- Okay the write a lot of the code for me, but I personally don't commit anything without reviewing
- YOLO mode

Which eventually leads you to becoming the drinky bird pressing the Y key from that Simpsons episode. (Funnily enough I wrote that in my comment on lobste.rs in reply to someone else before I had even gotten to the point where I saw that @mttaggart literally had that gif)

And at that point, you're checked out. All that's left is vibes.

And unfortunately, these systems don't survive that point very well. And neither do you, in your skills and abilities.

I think that I am underselling how much of a complete catastrophe this code is. I am trying to pick examples that illustrate broader patterns of how fucked it and AI code in general is because it's hard to communicate that everything is fucked if you consider it at any scale larger than ~10 lines.

I am reminded of the living planet in Lem's "Solaris" - Claude code dares to ask the question of "what if you could make something where every bit of it is so uniquely fucked that it cannot be reduced in complexity to a few general patterns of how fucked it is, and the only way to express the depth of fuckery is to experience every single character one by one"