Dev: We'll soon forget how bad hand-written code used to be
facontidavide · x · 2026-09-27
Developer Faconti Davide muses that people will soon forget how much hand-written code used to suck, and will develop the same wilful blindness and nostalgia toward pre-AI coding that we now see with the 1980s. A short but resonant observation on how AI coding tools are reframing perceptions of legacy code quality.
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