"It’s not slop if it works."

I read the title of this article in the comments of an AI-coded Steam Deck plugin.I had to do a double take and nearly got whiplash. A comment like that is staggering in its implications. I had a major sense of déjà vu. I’ve seen this movie before, the ending is never about what got built. It's always about what got shipped.In my last article I said that AI has enabled the execution of all bad ideas quickly and easily. Now I want to explore the parallel between AI and Visual Basic (and the parallels here are much worse than one might imagine).A History LessonVisual Basic enabled unqualified people to implement bad ideas. But the tooling limited by their skill and scope due to the Visual Basic's constraints. VB has some major flaws that caused a lot of pain and suffering and they often only came to light long after the initial culprit absconded from the crime scene.Anyone who's been around long enough to deal with Excel or Access systems knows what how dreadful an amateur's…