90% of a SWE career is complaining about bad codebases — until coding agents arrived
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-28
A sharp observation on developer culture: 90% of a software engineer's career is spent moaning about crappy codebases written by other engineers — yet now that coding agents exist, everyone pretends they write golden, clean, modular code. The quip captures how agents have become a convenient scapegoat that lets humans collectively rewrite their own code legacy.
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