So you're saying simultaneously, the code is "higher quality than ever", but you also haven't even looked at the code to see its quality. Classic. I think you're mistaking quantity for quality.

If a product functions correct and performance is good, and AI agents write and maintain all the code, no-one has to care about human level code quality. The concept of "code quality" was only invented to make it easier for humans to understand and change code.

I mentioned before, code is definitely worse, but end product is better.

High quality code doesn't always lead to a high quality product.

And bad code doesn't always lead to a bad product.

I think they are saying they are using proxies for project quality, like features and test coverage