Quoting Armin Ronacher
- ID
- 4688
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 22 Oct 2026, 11:34 PM
- Fetched
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:17 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/armin-ronacher/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:18 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
This is a single-sentence quotation collected by Simon Willison on 22 October 2026, attributed to Armin Ronacher: "As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins." The post contains no further argument, examples, incident details, or technical specifics — just the line, a sponsor note for Teleport about monitoring AI agents in ephemeral runtimes, and site navigation links.
Why it matters
There is nothing here a builder can act on: no vulnerability, version, price, date, or measurement beyond the publication date. The only concrete signal in the surrounding page is the sponsor's framing of AI agents and sub-agents running with human-equivalent access but never sleeping — useful as a prompt to think about scoping agent permissions, but that is an ad, not reporting, and the quote itself supplies no evidence for what 'bad software' means or which AI-era failures it refers to.
Discussion angle
Ask the room for one concrete example each of 'bad software from the last 30 years' that AI tooling is now inheriting or amplifying — auth/session handling, date and timezone logic, schema migrations, retry semantics — and whether AI-generated code makes those patterns better or just faster to reproduce; treat the quote as a conversation starter, not as a finding.