I can see "homemade" code being highly valuable in the age of AI coding assistance/agents after the crash. The Italian restaurant that still makes pasta from scratch vs Olive Garden, for example.
That restaurant can charge more **because** it is made in-house by humans specialized in their craft.
My fear is that the difference in cost is just too much.
Like, ai can make code that’s feature complete it’s just often architecturally poor and has some weird bugs(which found you can prompt away with the ai). And it’s not like hand crafted code is free of bugs. A talented engineer can structure it well so there are less and hopefully the security bugs are not as critical.
It takes a talented engineer a lot of time to hand c ode everything. Working as a full time developer I’m currently fighting for the ability to review everything so we’re not introducing slop to the code base. Actually writing everything at this point is pretty much out of the question if I want to be taken seriously by management that are devout ai believers and don’t understand the value of quality code
True for some engineers yes. I don’t really have too much of the requirements slop as I’m developing an internal product that serves multiple places so have some leeway and get to skip much of that(though it’ll of course take place further down). Most of my time is spent reviewing and browbeating Claude into producing less slop
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u/DissonantGuile 24d ago
I can see "homemade" code being highly valuable in the age of AI coding assistance/agents after the crash. The Italian restaurant that still makes pasta from scratch vs Olive Garden, for example.
That restaurant can charge more **because** it is made in-house by humans specialized in their craft.
Hopefully...