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AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms
(blog.robbowley.net)
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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How many more years are going to be wasted with this crap?
Everyone knows that both in theory and practice, AIs are shit are producing code; the only ones who don't are the ones who are themselves unable to produce decent code and refuse to see the problem.
But yes, let's keep on pushing more and more until everything is drowned in worthless crap, as if we didn't already have enough issues with humans producing crap like web technologies, now they'll be riddled by even more crap.
I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It's probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they're either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.
We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.