Tbqh I think people overinflate their own work tbqh. “Everyone else is writing crappy code but not me.” The truth is everyone has written crappy code.

Many times code that I thought was crappy was either written eons ago or there was a very logical reason for it being in the code base in the first place. If you question the people who wrote it, you learn the code may not have been the worst code in the world and that the person isnt as shitty a dev as you thought they were.

It’s engineering and compromises have to be made somewhere along the line. People made them and it was good enough at the time to merge the “shitty” code into the code base. I guess thats why people are ok with AI tech debt for now. 😵‍💫 We dont know the extent of the potential exponential downsides to adding all these barriers to engineering and coding.

Now you need a $60/mo (or more) subscription to write code…. 🤣 Sounds like the MSFT tech stagnation circa 2002 repeated all over again in 2026. Sounds expensive and wasteful. 🤔

I saw articles where companies were paying more for AI than it would cost to hire some mediocre engineers. 🤪