You.com CEO Richard Socher: legacy code is human slop, let AI clean it up
RichardSocher · x · 2026-10-23
You.com founder Richard Socher argues that "legacy code = human slop" and that AI's next job is cleaning up humanity's messy codebases — a take on agentic coding moving beyond writing new code to refactoring existing systems.
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