Your codebase doesn't care how it got written

Article

• Argues that code quality matters, not whether a human or AI wrote it
• Engineers pushing back on AI adoption at small companies risk becoming the bottleneck
• Job description has already changed; adapt or fall behind

Discussion

• robbyrussell (author) confirmed he’s hearing engineers threaten to quit over forced AI adoption
• Skeptics: AI-generated code creates unmaintainable spaghetti nobody understands when bugs hit
• Counterpoint: LLMs trained on public open-source; best practices locked in private codebases degrade output
• Common retort: ‘you just reinvented the argument for waterfall / assembly line coding’

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