Devs clash: hand-written code now 'buggier and less readable' than frontier models
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-13
An X spat over whether production code should still be hand-written. GeorgeCrudo argued that believing "no more hand written code" is an ideal production environment shows a lack of technical understanding — hand-writing is often more efficient and reduces tech debt.
basedjensen fired back: apparently he doesn't know how things work — hand-written code today has far more bugs and is less readable than what frontier models produce; if you're hand-tuning, you're not shipping fast enough and are adding tech debt.
The exchange captures the two camps in the AI coding debate: control and comprehension vs. model-generated speed and quality.
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