Veteran engineer with 35 years of experience: AI code beats most humans, exposing decades of "human slop"
Immediate-Court-4074 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A self-described 35-year veteran software engineer endorses the take that "the internet has a human slop problem, and AI is exposing it."
- Today's AI is better than average at software engineering — it still makes mistakes, but far fewer
- Companies have only a few great engineers; much of the software built over 30 years came from unexceptional engineers, and that quality debt is now exposed by comparison
- He frames it as no indictment of humans: brains run on 20 watts for both life and work, and humans built the AI
The post fuels ongoing debate about legacy code quality versus AI coding ability.
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