Comment by pydry

>So much of what we write is absolutely low-skill and low-impact, but necessary and labor-intensive.

Ive never found this to be true once in my career.

I know a lot of devs who looked down on CRUD or whatever it was they were doing and produced boilerplate slop though.

Code isnt like pottery. There arent "artisanal" devs who produce lovely code for people to look at like it's a beautiful vase. Good code that is hooked into the right product-market fit can reach millions of people if it works well.

The world was replete with shitty code before AI and mostly it either got tossed away or it incurred epic and unnecessary maintenance costs because it actually did something useful. Nothing has changed on that front except the tsunami of shit got bigger.