[teiferer]

The divide described in the article is just nonsense. Maybe it's more along the lines of those who focus on quality versus those who focus on shipping. In the end, we want both, but which aspect is more important to either party is what I get from a good faith read of the article.

If you care most about quality then you realize that AI coding assistants are fundamentally unable to provide that since they fundamentally rehash what they have been trained on, which is, fundamentally, mediocre code, on average. It must be, because it's hard (impossible?) to measure, so can't be filtered out of the training data. Quality focus engineers (the "craft" folks) don't consider that enough. If all you want is ship, you don't care.

And that'a fair, it's a matter of personal priorities, and customers value these things differently too, so there is a place in the market for either. But please stop phrasing this in terms of loving syntax puzzles or such nonsense.