Armin Ronacher

Flask's Creator Burned $1,200 on an AI Coding Run and Three Communities Spent the Week Agreeing With Him

Armin Ronacher spent $1,200 and 35 hours on a GPT-6 Astra experiment that produced 75,000 lines of code he called worthless. A researcher measured AI code as twice as verbose as human code. Hacker News hit 746 points asking to limit AI news. The backlash has numbers now.