Dev quips that AI is killing the 'unmaintainable mess' of functional programming
tlakomy · x · 2026-09-21
Developer tlakomy joked that one thing we can thank AI for is the death of functional programming, calling it an unmaintainable mess. The quip taps into a real debate: as models increasingly write code, do human ideals of elegant abstraction still matter?
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