Comment by SpicyLemonZest

> Professional software developers are in the business of solving practical problems for people with code. We are not, in our day jobs, artisans. Steve Jobs was wrong: we do not need to carve the unseen feet in the sculpture. Nobody cares if the logic board traces are pleasingly routed. If anything we build endures, it won’t be because the codebase was beautiful.

I think this is my key point of disagreement. Professional software developers often don't see themselves as artisans, because Steve Jobs's unseen feet are implemented through our implicit standards of ourselves. I don't go out of my way to be a perfectionist on the job, but neither will I try to push 1000 lines of spaghetti to solve a minor problem that seems like it ought to be a simple fix.

I've worked with people in the past who don't have this instinct, and it's my experience that their productivity is quite low if not negative, even though they often perceive themselves to be 10x developers who can handle all kinds of edge cases super fast. I suspect that most AI-generated code today ends up in this niche.