Comment by tux1968
6 days ago
This has happened before. Non-technical or junior people developed and deployed applications, emboldened by the relative ease of Microsoft Access and Excel. There were all kinds of limitations, scaling problems, and maintenance nightmares. But there were a lot of upsides too, and it made the "professionals" up their game to obviate the need for such adhoc and unsanctioned developments.
Come to think of it, the exact same thing happened when the PC became popular. Mainframe people were aghast at all the horrible unprofessional mess that the PC people were creating.
A lot of my work early on in new projects is setting up local and CI validations and rules, practices, reviews, git usage, design patterns / code architecture, etc - skipping all of those will lead to maintenance problems in the long run, whether code is written by a developer (I'm not even going to prefix it with 'junior' because I also suck lol) or an AI. But that validating is carried by the whole company at least. Where I work now we've got unit tests, linters, automatic formatting via Biome or Prettier, visual regression tests, Sonar with all the options enabled, minimum of two code review approvals, locked down main branch, etc etc etc.
Some AI generated code does come through, but at that point it's already mostly alright. Code review is still required for things like unnecessary comments or detecting duplicate functionality (exact duplicate code is already pointed out by Sonar).
Almost managed to forget the horror of all those enterprise "web" pages that worked just as long as the user was on a Windows machine with ActiveX ...
My company still has internal sites that work only on windows