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by aurareturn 173 days ago
Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”. They pay for results.

Does it work? How fast can we get it? How much does it cost to use it?

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> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”

Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.

Or space, or defense, or some corners of finance and insurance.

> Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.

Exactly. What I've noticed is that the a lot of the conversations on HNs is web devs talking to engineers and one side understands boths sides, and other one doesn't.

"Does it work?" covers what you said.
Sounds like the best way to sell an OK product.
yes, but to achieve those, one often needs great code
LLM use does not equal bad code.