halvarflake: most production code wasn't production quality even before AI
TheKanter · x · 2026-10-13
In a reply to a debate about AI code quality, renowned security researcher Halvar Flake argued: "I think most code used in production even before AI arrived wasn't exactly production quality."
The one-liner cuts to the core premise of the "does AI degrade code quality" debate — sloppy code long predates LLMs — and has been widely shared across the AI community.
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