AI Turns Coding Into Factory Production: Ugly, Wasteful, But Efficient
bendee983 · x · 2026-08-19
The post compares AI coding to the Industrial Revolution: past hand-written code was like 18th-century carpentry—beautiful but slow. Now, AI generates code like a factory—ugly, non-unique, and wasteful, yet incredibly fast and cost-efficient. The author believes efficiency will improve over time, but the beauty of hand-crafted code will largely become a relic of the past.
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