Mar 09, 2026

I enjoyed “Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code” by Lars Janssen. Author explains from different viewpoints, how writing code is not the primary work of software engineers. Understanding problem, and delivering solution is. Sure, writing code is one side of it. Making it reliable, efficient, effective, intuitive, and few dozen more adjectives are other sides.

Reviewing slop is no fun. That guy sure saved some of his time creating this pull request. Or did he just transfer it to me?

I see people who have no business building software produce more code than I can review. And then they me ask questions about their code that a junior developer wouldn’t.