Comment by sd9

I agree. I've got more lazy over time too. But the cost of creating code is so cheap... it's now less important to be perfect the first time the code hits prod (application dependant). It can be rewritten from scratch in no time. The bar for 'maintainability' is a lot lower now, because the AI has more capacity and persistence to maintain terrible code.

I'm sure plenty of people disagree with me. But I'm a good hand programmer, and I just don't feel the need to do that any more. I got into this to build things for other people, and AI is letting me do that more efficiently. Yes, I've had to give up a puritan approach to code quality.