Comment by greenlimetea
3 days ago
As crazy as it sounds, code quality != software quality.
It turns out that the lower the barrier to creating "high quality" code is, the worse the software is on average.
Who remembers the Photoshop lens flare?
It's not that the effect sucked - it did lens flare perfectly. But who used it sucked.
Instagram and the Nashville filter - "we're all photographers now"
Code quality not equaling software quality gets at the fun part of the modern AI-labor debate. Where does talent and efficacy really reside in terms of software? Surely not in the (apparently unworthy?) mind of a human? Surely it can be extracted, distilled, automated – liberated! - unto a reactive web interface for some middle manager to invoke (at some expense to some account this folk loses zero sleep over), because it is after all this flimsy, transferrable - not worthless! Not worthless! I have a stock portfolio to maintain for God's sake. But mine. Nonetheless.
Code quality doesn't equal software quality.
I think it’s an excellent observation!
Code quality is really about readability and organization of code.
The thinking is, if the humans reading, writing and editing the code can’t read and comprehend it, they can’t develop it in meaningful ways.
But it is not a requisite that great software stands on top of great code