What Thorsten Ball thinks about software quality

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19 Sept 2026

Our readingIn the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.

Their wordsin the future, humans won't find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won't be in PRs and it won't be by looking through every line of the code.

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19 Sept 2026

Our readingMost software bugs will not be coding bugs but bugs from asking for the wrong thing.

Their wordsMost bugs won't be "coding" bugs. They'll be "you asked for the wrong thing" bugs.

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19 Sept 2026

Our readingThere is no proof good code will matter in the future, since the notion is based on human ease of use and humans will not modify most code.

Their wordsThere's no proof that "good code" will matter in the future. The notion of "good code" itself is mostly based on the idea that it's easy/cheap/efficient for humans to work with. But humans won't modify the majority of code.

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