95 percent of the software made in an age of abundance will be shitty, and shitty software is easy to deal with because it goes away.

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• Most of software is not the new stuff; it is old, crappy code somebody has to maintain, and it is full of genuinely hard problems. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025
• Early-2000s software development tooling was mostly bad, despite nostalgia for that era. HRHarper Reed6 Jan 2026
• Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse. BVBen Vinegar6 Sept 2026
• Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026

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