I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
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While I like this general description of "Ptolemaic code"¹ and understand the appeal, I can't read it without immediately flashing to the excellent series "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown", which covers how the shift from heliocentrism to geocentrism was nowhere near as neat and simple as the story is told today. Highly recommended:
https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-table-of.html