alt Hacker NewsCode quality is not an issue.....until it is. Everyone will be happy if things seem to be working and moving fast, it's only until you start seeing symptoms like not being able to change things without breaking existing features or even seeing an increase in tokens burned for reading complex code bases that you will start caring about code quality (which i imagine now people will just have AI try to fix it's own mess).
There are plenty of decades old codebases written in old guard languages that were suffering the same fate pre-ai. What is old is new again.
We will just repeat the same pattern, have the latest and greatest frontier models rewrite the software just like how many desktop monoliths moved to React SPAs.
The real winners are frontier labs, we pay them to write black box software and we pay them to rewrite the software.