[Gud]

“Quality is not a metric” is the core argument here.

I say the only way to build a successful long term product is by focusing on quality, ESPECIALLY when the competition is shitting out crap.

[CuriouslyC]

Quality buys you user retention/longevity. You can't retain users you don't have though, and getting users now is brutal.

[pixl97]

Features get users, but features introduce complexity, bugs, technical debt, and maintenance expenses.

More so this complexity requires that you have support for your users, and QA of weird functional interactions across systems boundaries that you just can't test for when actually writing the code.

This gets expensive really fast.

Complex software is hard, yo.

[Gud]

Getting users was always brutal

[icedchai]

I totally agree here. AI coding is raising the ceiling in terms of code quantity, but it also lowers the floor on quality, right into the sewer.

Fortunately experienced developers are in the best position to use these tools properly, evaluate what works and what doesn't. We might drown in slop first though.