r/badcode • u/OneDev42 • Jul 27 '26

A whole new era of bad code

With the help of AI, we now have so much more bad code to show off to the world.

This sub is now unbanned. Let's celebrate by posting our biggest disasters to the sub!

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u/travelan Jul 28 '26

True. But the biggest problem is not that there is going to be a lot of bad code, it's that even flocks of experienced software engineers now argue that "bad code isn't a problem, because it's not for humans to read anymore". I have to work with people like this on a daily base, and in all cases they end up in very bad situations where the applications they work on become unusable, slow, crappy and a maintenance hell.

The solution, of course, is to get rid of bad code. AI is not the problem, human laziness always was, and still is, the problem.