Just a few years ago, software was assumed to be made by people. Someone designed it, wrote the code, and fixed the bugs.
But now, more and more software is generated by AI.
Generated code can be useful. It can produce a working version of something very quickly. But working code isn’t always good code.
Sometimes it adds layers that do not need to be there. Sometimes nobody really knows why a piece of code exists, except that it made the app work at the time.
But that is not how I want to build Simpletext.
Simpletext was built around simplicity, and that extends to the code too. I know what every line of code does. I know why it was written, what it depends on, and where the trade-offs are. There is nothing unnecessary.
And that clarity matters to me.
I have no doubt AI will become more capable, and I am not against it. But Simpletext will remain built by a human — by me.
Not because it’s the best way. But because it’s the clearest way.