The New Normal: Devs Build Distributed Systems They Can't Explain
cramforce · x · 2026-10-28
A viral tweet jokes about the "new normal" of AI-assisted coding: a developer claims to have built a multi-writer distributed-queue transactional zero-proof system, but when asked how it works, admits "I don't know yet." It captures the growing gap between what developers ship with AI and what they actually understand.
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