[somesortofthing]

I find AI code usually looks worse than it actually is. It's overly verbose, confusing, and littered with fallbacks that mean that if something goes wrong it falls through a million layers of try/catch and moves the stack trace somewhere completely unrelated to where the error actually happened, but in terms of the actual functionality it works much better than any similar-looking code written by a human would.

[layer8]

Such code as you describe is still bad code, though, because it’s difficult to reason about it, both for humans and LLMs.

[somesortofthing]

It's bad code, but it's not pretending to be better than it is.