After years of working at startups I’ve long since abandoned any notion of craft at work. I have developed a very keen sense for harmfully cutting corners though, and unreviewed AI code (or unreasonably large PRs - defined by a size you can’t comfortably review) is absolutely cutting corners. It’s nothing to do with craft and everything to do with both correctness and incurring massive amounts of future debt.

Yep it's not 'result chasers' but people who want to get credit while avoiding real work. And when their stuff breaks they are always too busy with something else or moved on to another project.

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This better matches my experiences and feelings than the divide which the author discusses. The craft is in the entire building, not specifically the coding aspects. I want to do a great job building a house, and if AI helps or even completes some aspects while meeting standards that's awesome. The problem is it hasn't yet shown it can be trusted as a sub trade, and we've got people outsourcing the entire project to an army of agents. The result looks a lot like the condo I bought a few years ago.