{"id":44367,"date":"2026-04-01T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=44367"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:21:52","slug":"the-internet-runs-on-garbage-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2026\/04\/01\/the-internet-runs-on-garbage-code\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet runs on garbage code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code.<sup data-fn=\"41a55965-0ba7-4503-a671-8a1991bfae8e\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#41a55965-0ba7-4503-a671-8a1991bfae8e\" id=\"41a55965-0ba7-4503-a671-8a1991bfae8e-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I&#8217;m 27 years into working in IT. I&#8217;ve seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it&#8217;s thoughtful, well documented, and clear what&#8217;s intended. Most of the time, I&#8217;m amazing the junk actually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given all the different things I&#8217;ve worked on in my career, the one thing that&#8217;s remained consistent is finding ever worse source code running something important that&#8217;s designed to be used in a very specific way without any sort of error handling (meaning it&#8217;s waiting to be abused).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Does it work? Yeah, for the use case specification.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does it break? Yeah, when not used correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does it break the service? Sometimes, but probably not encountered in the way anyone notices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given these factors, it&#8217;s going to go unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the theory for why software should go through code reviews. People should check each other&#8217;s work. This is why it should go through quality assurance testing to ensure it works as expected and doesn&#8217;t break unexpectedly. This is why there are bug bounties to find problems so they can get addressed before they break things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, as long as things kind of sort of just work enough, the garbage will remain out there. AI won&#8217;t fix it. AI will probably make more of it. Human code reviewers, QA testers, and bug bounties won&#8217;t keep up plus miss things, so AI will take over those roles. Which means it will miss things too, but it will keep up with the code generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questions are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Will things crash and burn because the AI misses something.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will the humans tasked to resolving it, be able to figure out what the AI created?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Magic 8-Ball says: Signs point to yes about #1 and no about #2. <\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"41a55965-0ba7-4503-a671-8a1991bfae8e\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/entire-claude-code-cli-source-code-leaks-thanks-to-exposed-map-file\/\">Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file<\/a>. Ars Technica. <a href=\"#41a55965-0ba7-4503-a671-8a1991bfae8e-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code. There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I&#8217;m 27 years into working in IT. I&#8217;ve seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it&#8217;s thoughtful, well documented, and clear what&#8217;s intended. Most of the time, I&#8217;m amazing the junk actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"<a href=\\\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/entire-claude-code-cli-source-code-leaks-thanks-to-exposed-map-file\/\\\">Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file<\/a>. 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