Yeah, I imagine it's something that needs to be enforced at the organizational level. I sympathize with anyone who takes pride in their work and needs to deal with mindless coworkers pushing slop without any accountability. I left corporate software development (before LLMs were a thing) over frustration with the general culture and I can only imagine it's gotten worse since then.

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birdsongs 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's really bad now, yeah. :( It just really hurts that I spent well over a decade of my life learning and honing skills to engineer safe, quality software and now it's just, useless.

No one cares at best, or I'm callously told "keep up or fall behind" at worst. When that's not even the problem, it just, sucks now. There's no joy in anything I do professionally.

Can I ask where you went? I'm seriously looking for an exit, I just don't know what yet. Maybe a trade, in Scandinavia the pay is actually comparable, I just don't want to go back to school.

	▲	Silhouette 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It just really hurts that I spent well over a decade of my life learning and honing skills to engineer safe, quality software and now it's just, useless. It can feel that way with all the hype but I very much doubt that is really true. I see an industry that is rapidly dividing into two camps - "move fast and break things" and "this actually needs to work". Writing everything with agents and merging while barely even checking what is in the PR has become standard practice in the former but it will get you laughed out of the room in the latter.
	▲	fasterik an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was fortunate and saved up enough to live frugally and just work on passion/learning projects for a while. I've been considering going back into commercial software development as a solo dev and leveraging AI, but keeping the focus on quality and craftsmanship. In my opinion there's never been a better time to start a new, ambitious project if you're passionate about quality software.