Robotics researcher sparks debate: coding agents built by people least suited to writing good software
KyleMorgenstein · x · 2026-10-08
Robotics researcher Ryan Julian argues it is "no coincidence" that coding agents were created by the group of people least apt at and appreciative of writing good software, a dig at ML research culture. A quoted reply adds that academia's ML code was "the original AI slop." The quip resonates as commentary on the tension between rapid research prototyping and software engineering taste.
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