Coding

I see it everywhere now. AI code. Code that pretends to be written by a person, but isn’t. You can smell it if you’ve been around code long enough. It’s too clean. Too eager to please. Every function name is a sentence. Every comment explains the obvious, like it’s written by someone explaining programming to a golden retriever. Sometimes there’s even an emoji in there. An emoji. In code. Real code has scars. You can see where someone tried something stupid at two in the morning, got it working, and never touched it again. There’s a weird indentation that no one can explain. Variable names start sensible, then drift into chaos. Half a function is commented out “just in case.” ...