Several books were written about this trend, how placeholders would end up becoming actual production code, creating a snowballing mountain of tech debt and totally unmaintainable code
July 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Several books were written about this trend, how placeholders would end up becoming actual production code, creating a snowballing mountain of tech debt and totally unmaintainable code
Excuse me, this software is unmaintainable for political reasons
June 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Excuse me, this software is unmaintainable for political reasons
the google balls feed will be deleted and remade on a feed service soon because hosting it rn has become unmaintainable
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
the google balls feed will be deleted and remade on a feed service soon because hosting it rn has become unmaintainable
AI is finally coming for my job (producing unmaintainable spaghetti code)
March 6, 2024 at 11:11 PM
AI is finally coming for my job (producing unmaintainable spaghetti code)
The result is a goddamn nightmare for the phase of software development that accounts for the vast vast majority of any code's lifespan: maintenance.
The code is unmaintainable. Even less maintainable than Mel's code, because at least Mel had a thought process, something llm's entirely lack.
The code is unmaintainable. Even less maintainable than Mel's code, because at least Mel had a thought process, something llm's entirely lack.
June 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The result is a goddamn nightmare for the phase of software development that accounts for the vast vast majority of any code's lifespan: maintenance.
The code is unmaintainable. Even less maintainable than Mel's code, because at least Mel had a thought process, something llm's entirely lack.
The code is unmaintainable. Even less maintainable than Mel's code, because at least Mel had a thought process, something llm's entirely lack.
In the professional aid world this is phrased as "everyone deserves human dignity" and "unmaintainable dependencies create unintentional harm".
It's not controversial, but let's break down what that means 🧵👇
It's not controversial, but let's break down what that means 🧵👇
might be stepping on a discourse land mine but I think we'd all do well to realize there is a clear, distinct, and important difference between 'relying on mutual aid/donations long term is very risky and should be avoided if at all possible' and 'people who rely on mutual aid/donations are bad'
June 22, 2026 at 12:14 AM
In the professional aid world this is phrased as "everyone deserves human dignity" and "unmaintainable dependencies create unintentional harm".
It's not controversial, but let's break down what that means 🧵👇
It's not controversial, but let's break down what that means 🧵👇
That sounds like a mess, and unmaintainable.
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
That sounds like a mess, and unmaintainable.
old car software tended to be shitry unmaintainable monoliths and to fix this they put microservice architecture in cars
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
old car software tended to be shitry unmaintainable monoliths and to fix this they put microservice architecture in cars
"minecraft mod sites" and it was STRICTLY Optifine.
Rest in PISS Optifine. Bloated unmaintainable mess with stolen features.
Motherfucker really tried to USSEP the entire Minecraft modding scene into being his bitch, and Adfly was how he financially profited from that operation for YEARS.
Rest in PISS Optifine. Bloated unmaintainable mess with stolen features.
Motherfucker really tried to USSEP the entire Minecraft modding scene into being his bitch, and Adfly was how he financially profited from that operation for YEARS.
people talking about building "creator economies" wish they had 0.1% of the power 2010s minecraft mod sites had
June 23, 2026 at 9:26 AM
"minecraft mod sites" and it was STRICTLY Optifine.
Rest in PISS Optifine. Bloated unmaintainable mess with stolen features.
Motherfucker really tried to USSEP the entire Minecraft modding scene into being his bitch, and Adfly was how he financially profited from that operation for YEARS.
Rest in PISS Optifine. Bloated unmaintainable mess with stolen features.
Motherfucker really tried to USSEP the entire Minecraft modding scene into being his bitch, and Adfly was how he financially profited from that operation for YEARS.
who is going to teach LLMs to not write truly horrific unmaintainable garbage slop nix code
August 17, 2026 at 10:37 PM
who is going to teach LLMs to not write truly horrific unmaintainable garbage slop nix code
Any halfway decent software architect who interviews at Palantir will immediately see through all the hype and go "Oh so this is all unmaintainable bullshit glued together with maintenance contracts"
Literally the WORST kind of shop to work in. You'd never get anything new built. Dog and pony shows
Literally the WORST kind of shop to work in. You'd never get anything new built. Dog and pony shows
June 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Any halfway decent software architect who interviews at Palantir will immediately see through all the hype and go "Oh so this is all unmaintainable bullshit glued together with maintenance contracts"
Literally the WORST kind of shop to work in. You'd never get anything new built. Dog and pony shows
Literally the WORST kind of shop to work in. You'd never get anything new built. Dog and pony shows
as a pro dev who prides myself on quality of work, what I have seen is shovelware that will become completely unmaintainable and unable to adjust to changing business needs
March 5, 2026 at 5:21 AM
as a pro dev who prides myself on quality of work, what I have seen is shovelware that will become completely unmaintainable and unable to adjust to changing business needs
"actually its fine if agentic code is unmaintainable for humans because the agents will just maintain it" is just the next cope in a long series of copes from LLM true believers who said they were going to revolutionize customer support, summaries, art, writing and video, all of which they failed at
July 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"actually its fine if agentic code is unmaintainable for humans because the agents will just maintain it" is just the next cope in a long series of copes from LLM true believers who said they were going to revolutionize customer support, summaries, art, writing and video, all of which they failed at
If it even worked, it would create an unmaintainable mess.
March 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If it even worked, it would create an unmaintainable mess.
bsky.app/profile/pook...
These useless fucks purposely alienate themselves, and their output is exactly what you expect from someone spinning off into the deep end all by their lonesome
Reams of completely garbage, unmaintainable code, volumes of absolute fucking nonsense word salad, hideous "art"
These useless fucks purposely alienate themselves, and their output is exactly what you expect from someone spinning off into the deep end all by their lonesome
Reams of completely garbage, unmaintainable code, volumes of absolute fucking nonsense word salad, hideous "art"
The Frieran angle thing is so great because *every* artist knows that angle is tough. They've all been through it, learning the hard way how to do it.
To a non-artist it doesn't seem like a hard problem. A non-artist who only wants to be seen as an artist, will use genAI instead of learning it.
To a non-artist it doesn't seem like a hard problem. A non-artist who only wants to be seen as an artist, will use genAI instead of learning it.
March 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
bsky.app/profile/pook...
These useless fucks purposely alienate themselves, and their output is exactly what you expect from someone spinning off into the deep end all by their lonesome
Reams of completely garbage, unmaintainable code, volumes of absolute fucking nonsense word salad, hideous "art"
These useless fucks purposely alienate themselves, and their output is exactly what you expect from someone spinning off into the deep end all by their lonesome
Reams of completely garbage, unmaintainable code, volumes of absolute fucking nonsense word salad, hideous "art"
The resulting website would basically be unmaintainable. You couldn't easily add shit to it because doing so would break a table, the WYSIWYG would straight up lie to you about whether it works at all correctly due to differences in browsers, etc
August 31, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The resulting website would basically be unmaintainable. You couldn't easily add shit to it because doing so would break a table, the WYSIWYG would straight up lie to you about whether it works at all correctly due to differences in browsers, etc
"LLMs will write unmaintainable code" what do you think we've been doing the past 5 decades
March 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
"LLMs will write unmaintainable code" what do you think we've been doing the past 5 decades
It is unmaintainable dogshit code.
And the hell of it is, the more you use Claude to vibecode, the less you are able to perceive how utterly fucked this code is. You stop being able to notice that it is terribly, cartoonishly sloppy code.
And the hell of it is, the more you use Claude to vibecode, the less you are able to perceive how utterly fucked this code is. You stop being able to notice that it is terribly, cartoonishly sloppy code.
April 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
It is unmaintainable dogshit code.
And the hell of it is, the more you use Claude to vibecode, the less you are able to perceive how utterly fucked this code is. You stop being able to notice that it is terribly, cartoonishly sloppy code.
And the hell of it is, the more you use Claude to vibecode, the less you are able to perceive how utterly fucked this code is. You stop being able to notice that it is terribly, cartoonishly sloppy code.
In software we have a term: Technical Debt
Minor bad practices are allowed for the sake of shipping on time. If you don't spend effort later paying down this debt (by fixing the mistakes) your project quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess.
"Lesser evil" voting accumulates Evil Debt
Minor bad practices are allowed for the sake of shipping on time. If you don't spend effort later paying down this debt (by fixing the mistakes) your project quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess.
"Lesser evil" voting accumulates Evil Debt
July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In software we have a term: Technical Debt
Minor bad practices are allowed for the sake of shipping on time. If you don't spend effort later paying down this debt (by fixing the mistakes) your project quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess.
"Lesser evil" voting accumulates Evil Debt
Minor bad practices are allowed for the sake of shipping on time. If you don't spend effort later paying down this debt (by fixing the mistakes) your project quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess.
"Lesser evil" voting accumulates Evil Debt
“LLMs will make codebases into unmaintainable slop!”
Ed: “I just had built a ts-morph custom linter for free that enforces business rules the type system cannot. It required zero of my attention and is patterned to add more whenever needed”
Ed: “I just had built a ts-morph custom linter for free that enforces business rules the type system cannot. It required zero of my attention and is patterned to add more whenever needed”
January 22, 2026 at 10:48 PM
“LLMs will make codebases into unmaintainable slop!”
Ed: “I just had built a ts-morph custom linter for free that enforces business rules the type system cannot. It required zero of my attention and is patterned to add more whenever needed”
Ed: “I just had built a ts-morph custom linter for free that enforces business rules the type system cannot. It required zero of my attention and is patterned to add more whenever needed”
vibecoding is fantastic because instead of writing bugs by hand, you can generate 4,000 lines of unmaintainable spaghetti in four seconds and feel like a wizard.
September 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM
vibecoding is fantastic because instead of writing bugs by hand, you can generate 4,000 lines of unmaintainable spaghetti in four seconds and feel like a wizard.
velocity (speeding into a wall of unmaintainable garbage)
June 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
velocity (speeding into a wall of unmaintainable garbage)
a sure way to poison an entire codebase with unmaintainable code that nobody understands, yup.
September 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
a sure way to poison an entire codebase with unmaintainable code that nobody understands, yup.
100 vibecoding fucks asking for exciting new business ideas and they all get the same output.
100 vibecoding assholes getting the same unmaintainable 10,000 LoC blob of code they never bother trying to mentally model or understand what the problem points might be
100 vibecoding assholes getting the same unmaintainable 10,000 LoC blob of code they never bother trying to mentally model or understand what the problem points might be
March 31, 2026 at 4:14 AM
100 vibecoding fucks asking for exciting new business ideas and they all get the same output.
100 vibecoding assholes getting the same unmaintainable 10,000 LoC blob of code they never bother trying to mentally model or understand what the problem points might be
100 vibecoding assholes getting the same unmaintainable 10,000 LoC blob of code they never bother trying to mentally model or understand what the problem points might be