Erik Meijer

It seems that with the advent of AI coding people have completely forgotten that human authored code suffered badly from quality degradation. That is why we coined the term "technical debt" and why companies like Meta incentivized "Better Engineering" as part of their performance review cycle.But suddenly, just like # of times of sex per week, IQ, ...., many humans now believe their code quality is higher than average. Sorry to disturb your dreams folks, but your code sucks louder than a jet-engine.The real opportunity here is to play the movie below in reverse. You have an unhealthy codebase but you use agents as some kind of white blood cells to continuously fight the disease and clean shit up.This is so fucking obvious, I keep wondering if I live in some alternate universe full of midwits and I am the only reasonable person around. twitter.com/i... Posted Mar 26, 2026 at 4:29PM