This is a market and competition driven race to the bottom, a vicious cycle. Everyone knows what is wrong, but nobody dares bet that the other side will slow down. Slow down and you are instantly out. The pace is now measured in weeks or even days. Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity, like playing the piano or painting.
This is a market and competition driven race to the bottom, a vicious cycle. Everyone knows what is wrong, but nobody dares bet that the other side will slow down. Slow down and you are instantly out. The pace is now measured in weeks or even days. Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity, like playing the piano or painting.
> Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity
Jesus Christ. And you still call yourselves engineers? It was a joke already when people valued care and effort in one’s own software.
I guess it's more akin to railroad engineers now... shoving coal and producing a lot of hot air.
> the consensus among executives will be to limit AI usage
I'm guessing doubling down on embracing AI usage is more likely
The boxcars won't even be needed because Americans are so enslaved now that Americans will drive themselves to the concentration camps.