Dan Luu on 'Bug Blindness,' and Why Coding Agents Make It the Binding Constraint
Luu reports hitting hundreds to thousands of bugs per week where most people he talks to report almost none, and argues the difference is adaptation rather than luck: people build unconscious workarounds and stop registering the defect. He cites Blackboard with 93% of surveyed users reporting they hate it, SEO-spammed results across Google, Bing and Kagi, Discourse code he says exists to inflate performance metrics, and Google Docs timing bugs he routes around automatically. The AI hook is short and load-bearing — coding agents make it cheap to generate low-quality software fast, and equally cheap to fix it, so noticing becomes the bottleneck. The post carries no visible date; it drew 288 points and 178 comments in 12 hours.
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