COPY COPY REVOLUTION

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

AI coding tools write verbose, repetitive code that experienced programmers find inefficient and inelegant. However, what if this approach is actually better for machines? Human engineers prefer code that's abstracted and reused because we can only keep a few things in our heads at once, while AI can manage thousands of separate pieces with ease. Instead of forcing AI to write "good" code by human standards (DRY, abstracted, and component-based), perhaps we should embrace its preference for "radically simple" code—where each function does exactly one thing without complex interconnections. This approach might actually create more reliable software, even if it looks messy to our eyes.