@willmcgugan: My concern for the AI era, or at least this phase of it, is that a generation is being taught that "close enough" is ju…
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A criticism of the AI era's acceptance of 'close enough' quality, using a persistent text wrapping bug in Claude Code as an example of lowered standards.
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My concern for the AI era, or at least this phase of it, is that a generation is being taught that “close enough” is just fine.
Take @AnthropicAI for example. Text wrapping in Claude Code has been broken for weeks. Superfluous spaces appear on the left edge. One engineer to another: you know its an out by one error.
I refused to believe that nobody has noticed this. The shtick they are selling is that AI can fix this kind of thing. Either they tried to prompt a fix, and Claude ain’t good enough to fix an out-by-one error. Or they haven’t attempted it because it is “close enough”.
It can’t be the case that AI is only good enough if we lower our standards. It can’t.
I’m well aware I have both feet firmly planted in my “grumpy old man” phase of life…
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