Shopify founder Tobi Lütke says most human code is low quality
Tech founders agree Claude Opus easily improves typical human-written code.
A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.
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Steven Sinofsky@stevesiThe most difficult part of working on Office was seeing documents people created daily in their work when our job was to make it easy. The emotionally tough part was almost always authors were super proud of the work they did. They just wanted a little help with one last thing.…
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JA EM ND Nick Dobos@NickADobos@tobi @arjunblj A lot of people have never managed coding interns and it shows Being able to be productive & achieve outcomes despite slop code, is a skill
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AO Alexis Ohanian 🗽@alexisohanianNobody wants to admit how much shipped code was never good to begin with. Opus is the collaborator, not the crutch. I absolutely love it. I am shipping code again after a 15+ year hiatus!! https://x.com/tobi/status/2077862721563828422
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