AI Is Writing Code We Can’t Understand. We’re Calling It Progress.
We are optimizing for the AI’s ability to produce a working artifact, not for the human’s ability to own it. Advanced models like GPT-6-Astra are generating ‘black box slop’—code so convoluted it’s indistinguishable from Brainfuck. We’re trading short-term velocity for a technical debt humans can’t physically repay.