What ThePrimeagen thinks about software quality

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Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube.

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1. 22 Mar 2025

   Our readingMost of software is not the new stuff; it is old, crappy code somebody has to maintain, and it is full of genuinely hard problems.

   Their wordsMost of software isn't the new stuff. Most of software is old crappy software that someone has to maintain, and it actually is really, really great and has lots of really hard problems.

   ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 10th of 31 in this recording

3. 22 Mar 2025

   Our readingCoding with an AI assistant slides from copiloting into autopiloting, and the bugs that follow are hard to trace.

   Their wordsFor me personally, I kept introducing bugs, and I couldn't figure out why. And what I realized is that I developed... I wasn't copiloting well, I was autopiloting much better.

   ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 23rd of 31 in this recording