Matt Pocock jokes: Claude copies repo conventions while humans once refactored on sight
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-01
Matt Pocock quips about a reversal in developer culture: in 2020 humans would refactor bad code on sight, while Claude in 2026 copies the prior art in the repo to keep the codebase consistent — highlighting how coding agents favor consistency over cleanup.
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