If Coding Is Solved, What Now? Measuring the Sloppiness of Code
doppp · hn · 2026-09-11
A blog post from Earendil argues that as AI makes writing code cheap, the scarce quality is cleanliness and maintainability. It proposes defining and measuring code "sloppiness," turning the question "is coding solved?" into a concrete engineering metric problem, and discusses what this means for engineering practice in the AI-assisted coding era.
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