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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.”

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“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.”

— Armin Ronacher, X, 22.10.2026 ↗

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