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Counter-Narrative Lands on r/programming: 'AI Won't Make You Rich. But Fixing Bugs in AI Slopware Will.'
A 98-upvote r/programming post argues that companies going 'AI-first' are discovering their apps are slower, compute costs are exploding, and 'AI-generated' engineers cannot debug the code they shipped. The framing positions AI debugging and verification as the actual emerging premium skill — not generation. The 36-comment thread includes several practitioners describing production incidents where AI-written code performed well in tests but degraded under real load, reinforcing the 'verification debt' pattern tracked across this pipeline.
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