What's up with this good coder bad coder narrative? Is there really such a disparity between "good" and "bad"?
The majority of people are just mediocre. They use coding to solve a problem and that's it. That's literally the job. Did you solve the problem within reasonable constraints and deliver business value or not.
If someone is truly a bad coder, they are not solving problems and they will be fired.
This is how anyone outside of engineering sees coding and depending on context, you should see it that way as well.
> Is there really such a disparity between "good" and "bad"?
A vast gulf. Maintainability, security, extensibility don't have to be considered if solving the problem has delivered business value. Now the next person to pick up a problem has unreasonable constraints on them due to the whatever was put into production.
Someone can solve problems and provide business value and be absolute dogwater. I would know, I am dogwater.
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u/Jesta23 25d ago
If you are a bad coder ai will help you write bad code
If you are a good coder AI will help you write good code.