Comment by gigel82
6 days ago
What this boils down to is an argument for slop. Yeah, who cares about the quality, the mediocrity, the craft... get the slop, push it in, call it done. It mostly works in the golden path, it's about 6 or 7 orders of magnitude slower than hand-written software but that's ok, just buy more AWS resources, bill the client, whatever.
I can maybe even see that point in some niches, like outsourcing or contracting where you really can't be bothered to care about what you leave behind after the contract is done but holy shit, this is how we end up with slow and buggy crap that no one can maintain.
>Yeah, who cares about the quality, the mediocrity, the craft..
Just about no-one in the F100 unless they are on very special teams.
If you care about the craft you're pushed out for some that drops out 10x LOC a day because your management has no ability to measure what good software is. Extra bonus points for including 4GB of node_modules in your application.
It's not much different without the AI. Managers don't care about efficient code, they care about code that meets the business goals - whether that's good or bad is debatable. Agencies duct-taping together throwaway code isn't new. The classic "just buy more AWS resources" & such have been around for quite a while.