Thank you for putting out a clear message. I completely agree.

> parade of garbage software that is slow as a dog, and uses gigabytes of memory to perform simple tasks.

and of course, this isn't even the worst. A lot worse can happen, such as data loss and corruption. Things that can directly affect people's lives in real life.

As a developer, these things are constantly on my mind, and I believe this is the case for people who do care about the quality.

As has been said elsewhere many times, AI producing code is not the same as say, a compiler producing machine code. It is not such a well-defined strong abstraction, hence why code quality still is highly relevant.

It is also easily forgotten that code is as much a social construct (e.g. things that have to be done in certain ways due to real life restrictions, that you wouldn't have to do in an ideal world).

Sometimes I feel very powerless though. It feels as if some of us are talking past each other, even if we seemingly are using the same words like "quality". Or in a way, that is what makes this more futile-- that we are using the same words and hence seemingly talking about the same thing, when we are referring to completely different things.

It is difficult to have a conversation about a problem when some of us don't even see it as a problem to begin with-- until it reaches a point when it starts affecting their lives as well, whether it be directly or indirectly. But that takes time.

Time will tell.