Dev analogy: nobody reads compiler machine code—and soon nobody will read agent code
CtrlAltDwayne · x · 2026-10-16
Blogger CtrlAltDwayne offers an analogy for the AI coding era: nobody reads the machine code their compiler generates, and within a year or two nobody will bother reading the source code their agents produce either—implying human code review will lose its role as agent-generated code becomes the norm.
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