"How did we ever write this by hand": dev recalls pre-AI coding pain
KevinNaughtonJr · x · 2026-11-05
Kevin Naughton shares a screenshot of gnarly old-school Python 2 code (hand-rolled Twitter timeline parsing with verbose loops, date parsing and URL extraction), captioned "how did we ever write this shit by hand" — a nostalgia meme about pre-AI coding pain that resonates in the AI era.
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