Trust actually does work that way though, the implicit and collective fuzzy agreement of “having my name on it”. Of course that ambiguity needs enforced automated checks, but reputation and one’s own integrity is not for nothing.

Generative AI breaks that agreement. It took me over a year to realize my previous CTO actually didn’t care too much about the system design he shipped . And the expectation was actually to just throw it away, have AI reimplement “what wasn’t working”. Use AI to ship, AI to learn what shipped, and AI to fix what shipped.

I quit because of it. Hell is working on other people’s AI code.

At different times in recent history, you could have also said:

> Hell is working on other people's NoSQL code.

> Hell is working on other people's Python slop code.

> Hell is working on other people's enterprise Java code.

> Hell is working on other people's Windows Forms/GUI Builder code.

Hell is other people.