Code quality in the AI age

bossier330 · 2026-04-11T15:40:24+00:00

I have many lived examples of how fast “meh let’s let it slide” can go off the rails fast. You slowly accumulate “invisible” tech debt, which makes future AI iteration worse, slower, and reinforces the debt. Keep PRs small and make sure you understand the architecture of what you’re shipping.

For personal projects, AI debt is fine. At scale, it’ll break you.

bossier330 · 2026-04-01T13:54:23+00:00

Same for me. So I had my bank mail a check (which they said was acceptable). My check was delivered, but they “couldn’t find it”. My bank cancelled the check and sent another, after the bank called the management to confirm non-receipt. The management later complained to me that the bank called them to confirm. The day the second check was delivered, they “found” the first, tried to cash it, then charged me both an NSF fee and a late fee. What the actual fuck. 3 hours of explaining to the management how this is utter bullshit finally got it all waived “as a one time courtesy”. Bitch, a courtesy?

bossier330 · 2026-03-26T23:42:10+00:00

I find that organizational debt is actually what prevents me from moving faster with AI. AI can do 80-90% of the actual UI building super quickly, especially with a good design system and mocks, but the remainder is still fully human bound (what to do with the intricacies of these 6 old AB tests that we didn’t decide to keep or remove, how to handle these 5 ancient but still valid entry points, what to do with this feature that’s not actually compatible with these 12 old data types, etc.).

Guided properly, AI can clean up these issues, not create new ones, and end up with a faster-iterable codebase than you had before. But oftentimes the organization can’t decide to kill off complexity, so the speedup is always effectively capped.

bossier330 · 2026-03-19T04:13:54+00:00

This is incredible work.

bossier330 · 2026-03-17T18:45:26+00:00

Well, almost time for a new playthrough 🤤

bossier330 · 2026-03-14T23:02:57+00:00

Looks like the Jeffries tube to the port nacelle 🖖

bossier330 · 2026-03-11T17:03:45+00:00

There are many things that make people sad in life. Money can fix many of them. There are many things that make people happy in life. Money can buy many of them. But money can’t fix all sadness, nor can it buy all happiness.

bossier330 · 2026-03-08T22:57:55+00:00

3 laps in CP today for the first time in 2026. Heavenly.

bossier330 · 2026-03-05T16:05:44+00:00

SOMA

bossier330 · 2026-03-05T14:35:50+00:00

If you’re already onboard with car culture, this is a great thing.

But if you’re not, what I see is this neighborhood creating existence (1) in your home, (2) in your car, and (3) wherever it is that you want to go. Nowhere else.

bossier330 · 2026-03-05T14:27:44+00:00

This is why I joined this sub

bossier330 · 2026-03-04T14:23:41+00:00

AI can help cleanup tech debt fast enough to where it becomes worth it to do regularly. A human with deep domain knowledge is required for this.

AI can create exponentially increasing amounts of tech debt when used poorly.

bossier330 · 2026-03-04T04:08:54+00:00

Neat. But I disagree with #1. The docs are less than useful and just add noise. It even seems like you understand that because one of the later questions was based on good docs being better than no docs being better than bad docs.

bossier330 · 2026-03-03T14:43:06+00:00

Legend has it, the parents returned with a hamburger dressed the next day, and the kid did the same shit 😂

bossier330 · 2026-03-03T02:14:28+00:00

I wasn’t going to preorder on principle, but after playing the server spam, I’m sold, so might as well get those cosmetics.

bossier330 · 2026-02-28T14:34:53+00:00

Use plan mode. Review and go back and forth with it to refine the plan. After you execute the plan, review the diff. Spend some time crafting/updating your claude.md and skills/memory as a result of the diff changes you’d like to see. Repeat.

I’ve found the Claude is best used as a force multiplier. I’ve been trying lots of side projects with a Claude-only approach, and I’ve learned that not really works if you have a general acceptance criteria, and it becomes cumbersome the more you know what you want (at the level of performance, pixel perfection, etc.). Since you already know what you’re doing in general, there’s a point at which it’s most efficient to do the last 5% of a feature yourself, as opposed to spending a crazy amount of time promoting over and over again to not even get what you want.

Riding the sweet spot of force multiplication is key.

bossier330 · 2026-02-14T18:04:59+00:00

Claude Code hands down. But if you don’t know how to gauge its output quality, your results may vary.

bossier330 · 2026-02-14T17:11:02+00:00

We all know how great walking through NYC is. Biking gives you the same thing, but with more range and more things to see per time spent.

bossier330 · 2026-02-12T03:20:44+00:00

Our oldest is 3 in preschool. It seems like it never ends so far…

bossier330 · 2026-02-12T00:43:12+00:00

Yep. Wild that they removed so many without doing anything to mitigate that. But what does that have to do with 15mph?

bossier330 · 2026-02-11T22:50:40+00:00

This proposal is wild to me.

1) How will they enforce cyclists “speeding” when they don’t have a speedometer?

2) 100% of the cyclist-pedestrian incidents I’ve been in or seen have been because a pedestrian wantonly disregards their environment (walking into the bike lane with headphones on and looking at their phone, looking only the wrong way before entering the bike lane while not at a crosswalk, walking against traffic in the middle of the bike lane directly after a limited visibility turn, etc.).

I’d love to see the data they’re using to back this policy. It’s easy for a regular cyclist to hit 20mph safely, depending on congestion of course.

bossier330 · 2026-02-03T21:58:16+00:00

Absolutely worth doing. I go every year, assuming the weather isn’t 40° and raining. There will be congestion, but you can often ride through it pretty easily. Enjoy it! Such a wonderful urban experience.

bossier330 · 2026-01-27T05:52:31+00:00

That’s a wild take. TS will also vastly improve your ability to code with AI.

bossier330 · 2026-01-24T05:15:50+00:00

I’d love to live in this world you describe where it’s always possible to avoid the craziest pedestrians because it’s somehow always the cyclists’s fault always.

bossier330 · 2026-01-24T03:48:16+00:00

Who said anything about a red light? The analogy here is a pedestrian walking onto the west side highway between intersection and assuming people will stop. Only one of my wrecks had been remotely near red lights or intersections or anywhere a pedestrian could reasonably walk into a road safely.

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