Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

I'm not convinced it's what the future holds for three main reasons:

1. I was a pretty early adopter of LLMs for coding. It got to the point where most of my code was written by an LLM. Eventually this tapered off week by week to the level it is now... which is literally 0. It's more effort to explain a problem to an LLM than it is to just think it through. I can't imagine I'm that special, just a year ahead of the curve.

2. The maintenance burden of code that has no real author is felt months/years after the code in written. Organizations then react a few months/years after that.

3. The quality is not getting better (see gpt 5) and the cost is not going down (see Claude Code, cursor, etc). Eventually the bills will come due and at the very least that will reduce the amount of code generated by an LLM.

I very easily could be wrong, but I think there is hope and if anyone tells me "it's the future" I just hear "it's the present". No one knows what the future holds.

I'm looking for another technical co-founder (in addition to me) to come work on fun hard problems in a hand written Elixir codebase (frontend is clojurescript because <3 functional programming), if anyone is looking for a non-LLM-coded product! https://phrasing.app

Totally agree. I use for chores (generate an initial README, document the changes from this diff, summarize this release, scaffold out a new $LANG/$FRAMEWORK project) that are well understood. I have also been using it to work in languages that I can/have written in the past but are out of practice with (python) but I’m still babysitting it.

I recently used it to write a Sublime Text plugin for me and forked a Chrome extension and added a bunch of features to. Both open source and pretty trivial projects.

However, I rarely use it to write code for me in client projects. I need to know and understand everything going out that we are getting paid for.

> I need to know and understand everything going out that we are getting paid for.

what is preventing you from this even if you are not the one typing it up? you can actually understand more when you remove the burden of typing, keep asking questions, iterate on the code, do code review, security review, performance review… if done “right” you can end up not only understanding better but learning a bunch of stuff you didn’t know aling the way