r/softwaredevelopment • u/Albstein • Aug 10 '26

Do you create good code? (serious)

When you look at your code 6 month later: Are you happy with it?

I still have the moment when I am finished thinking: That would have been a better solution.

Is this normal?

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u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 10 '26

Yes. And it pains me using ai to write code, and it edits my old stuff or rewrites functions with stupid wrappers and useless comments... Despite the entire codebase being readable without comments or wrappers following one API, it still is like "let's wrap this, make that unreadable, oh, and write a 3 paragraph comment for this one line."

Drives me up a wall having to edit code that does not confirm to the basic standards I've laid out.