Comment by Ozzie_osman
12 hours ago
Yes, writing code that (appears to) work was not the hard part. Even before LLMs you could find very cheap contractors on Upwork or through offshoring companies to write "code".
Well-engineered code is hard. It still is. Code that is reliable, extensible, maintainable, scalable, legible, understandable is hard. Code where the specs and the "why" behind it were pressure-tested via thought and good intuition.
customers very rarely have budget for the time it takes to produce well engineered code
And thus they end up paying even more for badly engineered code