AI code is unmaintainable? Human code wasn't a masterpiece for 30 years either
feregri_no · x · 2026-11-05
Responding to software engineers' common claim that AI-generated code is unmaintainable, Daniel Kleach points out the code humans have written over the last 30 years was hardly a masterpiece of maintainability either. The reposter adds the twist: bad code used to ship at human speed — that's what changed.
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