What Armin Ronacher thinks about software quality
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Armin Ronacher has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAll those things you can easily measure in isolation, and you can also optimize for them quite locally. But these local optimizations do not produce global optimums, and the fewer of us are looking at the output, the less it matters.
↗Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?lucumr.pocoo.org
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Their wordswhen it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.