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Beautiful code was always an idealistic concept that most humans were unable to achieve. Last years before AI were all about how to empower humans without gatekeeping on loosely defined, abstract, subjective rules

Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀@thomasfuchs.at

2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us

Paul Chavard

@tchak.net

I am starting to believe that AI coding will be useful and used because it’s not about creating perfect code, it’s about at scale replacing mediocre human produced artifacts with mediocre computer produced artifacts. And a lot of people’s jobs are already about managing streams of mediocre outputs.

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