alt Hacker NewsHopefully not, but there was recent thread with multiple posters arguing that code quality doesn't matter, and quality produced by humans in the past was often terrible. So who cares, ship it was the sentiment. Let the AIs handle the growing maintenance cost, I guess?
Kind of a shocking thing to see argued on HN. Maybe it's just the vibe coders.
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Kiro • today at 10:45 AM
> arguing that code quality doesn't matter, and quality produced by humans in the past was often terrible
You're conflating two different things. I'm one of the people arguing for the latter, but not because I don't think code quality matters but as a counter to to sudden idealization of handcrafted code.
The vast majority of corporate-employed programmers write bad code. I think maybe 10% of the people I’ve come across have shown any interest or care in the quality of code they write.
There will be a large majority of people who hold these opinions, because they weren’t capable of or didn’t care enough to write good code in the before times