"Most code of the last 20 years was slop" — the irony of mocking AI coding
AIandDesign · x · 2026-10-23
A debate snippet making the rounds: @thomasunise claims most code written over the last 20 years was "complete slop" and most developers were never that good. @AIandDesign quotes it to point out the irony — the same crowd now judging developers for using AI to code.
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