tenobrus: Human-centric code conventions may not survive superhuman coding models
ricklamers · x · 2026-09-07
- tenobrus floats the idea that AI coding may trend back toward "machine code" — code no longer written for human readability and long-term maintenance.
- Much of our notion of good architecture exists only because humans must understand and maintain code over years; self-rolled random()/hash() was never sane, but the surrounding conventions exist for human ergonomics.
- It's unclear those battle-tested conventions will remain optimal for models under superhuman capability and optimization pressure.
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