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tstrimpletoday at 7:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'm tired as fuck of anti-ai zealots pretending like every human is a fucking paragon at programming. I've literally never seen Claude Code produce as bad of code as generated by humans. Literally never. Yet the anti-ai zealots pretend like humans never introduce a bug into a system. Only LLMs produce slop or take shortcuts or ignore tests or do incredibly dumb fucking shit. It's fucking ridiculous. As if The Daily WTF didn't exist before LLMs. The reality is the "average" programmer is far below the skill floor of Claude Code or other frontier models. Those models will write test and explore more edge cases than the "average" developer ever will. But all these zealots pretend like they have only ever worked with the top 1% of the top 1% who never make mistakes or introduce bugs. Ultimately they are full of shit. You're lucky as fuck if your developers can even tell you what common design patterns are. The bar is that low and the HN crowd likes to pretend every developer is Linus Torvalds and not a clueless moron desperately coordinating API layers.


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MrScrufftoday at 8:57 AM

I’d probably word it differently but I agree with much of the sentiment here. I’m also reminded of the stat where 93% of drivers rated themselves as above average.

soulofmischieftoday at 8:54 AM

Is this comment directed at me? Where did you get an anti-AI sentiment from my comment?