Agent-generated code is a Jenga tower: you can ship it but never maintain it
ryunuck · x · 2026-09-21
A veteran engineer describes the disillusionment of trying to spin up hundreds of software products with agent models: the code piles up, but nothing gets polished. When he dives in to review, he finds obfuscated names, concepts with no human experiential structure, and a codebase that can't be quickly scanned—in his words, worthless. He closes with a meta-anxiety about proving one's humanity when AI floods every form of writing.
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