mitsuhiko: the universe is punishing us for 30 years of bad software
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-10-22
Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko, creator of Flask) quips that after building so much bad software over the last 30 years, "the universe is punishing us for our sins" — a wry nod to legacy tech debt colliding with the AI era, resonating with developers now dealing with decades of accumulated code.
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