mitsuhiko: AI Is the Universe Punishing Us for 30 Years of Bad Software
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-10-22
Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko), creator of Flask, quipped that for all the fun AI brings, it's really the universe punishing us for three decades of bad software. The one-liner resonated widely, pointing at accumulated legacy code and tech debt as both the soil for AI coding tools' rise and a black-humored commentary on developers' lot in the AI era.
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