Coder of 35+ years: the real sloppy code was written by humans, not AI
facontidavide · x · 2026-11-05
A programmer with 35+ years of experience admits the real sloppy codebase was written by humans, not AI — and that AI is currently having a blast hacking through that legacy mess.
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