AI Is Making Bad Engineering More Expensive
A blog post by developer Florian Herrengt has been sitting near the top of Hacker News for some time now, and the reason it's stuck there instead of scrolling off in a day is that it's not really an opinion piece — it's a mechanism, described clearly enough that people keep arguing about it instead of moving on. His argument, compressed: AI didn't make bad engineers less dangerous. It made them faster, and a bad engineer who can produce 10,000 lines of working-but-wrong code before lunch does more damage in a week than one who used to be bottlenecked by typing speed.
I went looking for whether that thesis actually holds up against real numbers instead of just vibes-based agreement in a comment section, and it mostly does — with one important correction to the panic version of the story.
The mechanism, in Herrengt's own terms
His core claim is...
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