AI definitely loves to over-engineer things but I’ve had lots of success with the latest models just telling them not to. Also I do simplification passes afterwards telling them to find anything that can be simplified or YAGNI.

I guess the tend to over-engineer is probably because the benchmarks don’t care about simplicity and maintainability? Who knows.

Maybe a year ago. Not today.

I totally agree. Whenever I’ve criticised Ruby, e.g. for it’s insane level of hard to follow “magic”, people just say “that’s just Ruby on Rails… not all Ruby is like that”. I have no idea why it’s popular or why we should listen to anyone that thinks Ruby is amazing and Rust is terrible. It shows an astounding level of poor taste.