[itsoktocry]

The fact of the matter is, unless you're doing cutting edge work, you dont need to be a great programmer or "write good code" to be successful.

That's why it's mind blowing to me when devs say AI writes bad code. For the most part, who cares?

[fragmede]

We, the people who used to write code, laboriously, by hand, using one's and zero's passed down to us, from Jacquard's loom, from before there was an Internet, do. A dying art, I suppose. Look at carpentry. The level of care put into the average kitchen cabinet evaporated when mass manufacturing means that Ikea can sell a set that is functional and looks just fine. Used to be, a carpenter painstakingly did it by hand, piece by piece in a woodshop. So too goes the way of coding, I suppose. Used to be every "if" "for" and "class" statement was typed out by a human, seen by human eyes. It seems that time must pass.

[nyarlathotep_]

This is correct. Majority of software written is CRUD crap + a client. This doesn't require anything like "ideal" (or even particularly good) code

Exceptions are ofc for software where there's actual performance concerns, "important" stuff (banking, finance and the like). NextJS SAAS of the day ain't it.