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Every time I ask Opus 4.5 to generate code it is a mess, by mess I mean a human would not have done it that way, it is sub-optimal for maintainability and improvements. The more complex the worse. But generally at least the code works. If I need to modify it, what a nightmare, better tell it to modify so AI slop leads to more AI slop.

It is the same as writing a story. It ain't gonna win The Hugo Award. We know it is AI, full of cliches and corporate speak. I think the difference is people are used to crap code, where as they won't read a crap book.

Most code is crap because 1) engineers don't care about the software 2) high turn over 3) getting rushed

So maybe AI just generates code at the level most people are used to, I have no idea because compared to my code Claude code is bad, but bad is not useless. I put the bad code in its little corner and it if it does its job it is fine.