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Code Quality

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Two coworkers engaged in a conversation in a modern office break room.

WatercoolerSep 12, 2026

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.

Sep 12, 20266 min

Close-up of AI-assisted coding with menu options for debugging and problem-solving.

RepoSep 4, 2026

We Pointed Anti-Slop at Our Own TypeScript and 21 of 53 Hits Landed in One File

Anti-slop is at 4,037 stars 22 days after its first commit. We vendored it, ran it across 7,180 lines of our own TypeScript, and got 53 findings, 21 of them in the single file we already trusted least.

Sep 4, 20265 min