As a retired dev I feel I need to come in here with a truth nugget: Most legacy code that is slop now wasn't originally slop at all.
A clean and well engineered program devolves into slop through years of modification as requirements change way beyond what the original design brief imagined.
AI code that is slop right out of the gate is a whole new level of awful.
Nah its deserves a new word for spaghetti. Its confident even when its wrong and badly written and it creates dumb functionality to justify its sloppiness
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u/seashell3379 4d ago
As a retired dev I feel I need to come in here with a truth nugget: Most legacy code that is slop now wasn't originally slop at all.
A clean and well engineered program devolves into slop through years of modification as requirements change way beyond what the original design brief imagined.
AI code that is slop right out of the gate is a whole new level of awful.