Pedro Domingos: only the next AI generation can understand the spaghetti code today's AI is producing
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-16
AI researcher Pedro Domingos offers a pointed observation: today's AI systems are generating mountains of unmaintainable "spaghetti code," and it will take the next generation of AI to actually understand it. His warning: if that next generation can't either, "we're in trouble." The quip highlights a real concern — AI-generated code is accumulating faster than humans can audit or maintain it.
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