AI = Accelerating Inoperability
A developer's observations on the increasing mess that is software generated by artificial intelligence.
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/
'There's a much more important difference between clanker and human. A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours. Even if the human creates such booboos at high frequency, there's only so many booboos the human can introduce in a codebase per day. The booboos will compound at a very slow rate. Usually, if the booboo pain gets too big, the human, who hates pain, will spend some time fixing up the booboos. Or the human gets fired and someone else fixes up the booboos. So the pain goes away.
With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.'
AI = Accelerating Inoperability
@leighelse This is why lines of code are never a good indicator of productivity. Good metrics account for analysis, design, and quality. They'll steer you towards the right process and language for your type of project and type of company. LLMs are just monkeys banging on typewriters, where the keys spit out algorithms at random.
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