Polished UI is a reasonable signal that a team invested comparable effort in the underlying code quality.

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• Building on a model is unlike any previous software engineering, because the thing you are building on cannot be designed up front. BCBoris Cherny27 Jul 2026designsoftware quality
• Models will not learn to write maintainable code from today’s benchmarks, because the cost of bad architecture cannot be measured by running the unit tests — it arrives three to six months later. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026designsoftware quality
• The most-cited study showing that language design affects software quality rests on misclassified repositories. DLDan Luu7 Nov 2014designsoftware quality
• A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026software quality
• A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026software quality

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