What Scott Hanselman thinks about software quality

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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9 Feb 2026

Our readingAI-assisted coding will generate a lot of low-quality output that developers will need to clean up, even as it also produces good results.

Their wordsI think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you're doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results

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