Comment by deadbabe

This view is a little idealistic.

Software Engineers have historically not been very liable even for errors they create by their own hands, and companies tend to operate on a “blameless” engineering culture where there is not really a formal consequence for screwing something up. Your peers may not trust you for a bit, but the trust builds back rapidly as they make their own mistakes and then empathize with your past transgressions.

And in the AI era, this attitude has extended even toward code engineers aren’t writing themselves. Everyone agrees not to protest too loudly if someone commits something wrong because tomorrow it might be you who has done so. The days of “obviously bad” slop code are largely behind us and most recent LLMs tend to put out decent code, so it is very hard to catch problems in review phases, you’d have to be very eagle eyed and that’s not scalable to every employee. It is much easier to let the code run wild for a bit and just be ready to fight fires should they come up.