[marcus_holmes]

Every single software engineer in the industry agrees with you.

Every single project manager disagrees.

Don't blame the engineers, we were specifically instructed and paid to build things fast and cheap, and every time we argued for good we were shouted down.

[pylua]

True. It has been a race to the bottom for lowest cost as long as the quality meets the bare minimum. LLMs can go through and find all the nails sticking out pretty easily.