QWOP: An analogy from robotics to programming difficulty
moultano · x · 2026-08-20
The author suggests that while QWOP was previously used as an analogy for why robotics is hard, it now functions better as an analogy for why programming is hard. AI models have revealed that we have essentially been 'playing QWOP' the whole time when writing code.
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