What Jamie Brandon thinks about software quality

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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20 Sept 2026

Our readingThe low-quality software that AI makes possible is a mistake to bemoan, because the alternative it replaces was no software at all, not high-quality software.

Their wordsI expect an onslaught of low-quality software, but it's a mistake to bemoan the quality without realizing that the previous alternative was not high-quality software but no software at all.

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