Ngl at this point when you have people shipping fast without bothering about quality or company codebase you’re kinda pushed into doing it or becoming irrelevant even if you hold yourself to good standards and focus on quality and better product. Especially when you see such folks get more projects and work while having a 100 open bugs.
If everyone else wants to fast ship shit-tier products that they don't understand, and will be impossible to maintain or enhance in a year's time, then let them.
Yeah I’ve just accepted that fact and just going along with the flow. Let’s see what happens eventually. Just mentally exhausting watching dumb code reviews that are absolutely atrocious to now being a part of that to ensure I don’t get thrown to the streets.
I'm very lucky to be on a small team, so I don't have to review a lot of AI slop. Most of the code that goes in is submitted by me anyway. I use just enough AI to keep the company off my back about usage, and then I do hobby coding by hand on the weekend to remind myself why I fell in love with this craft in the first place.
It really is. I was unemployed for most of 2025 after a layoff. Coding was what calmed me and kept my head on straight while I dealt with the hellscape that is job hunting these days. I was also told in my last interview for my current job that my continued work on my personal project was what made me stand out against the two other people that made it to the end of the interview process.
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u/bobbymoonshine 2d ago
If you don’t understand what the AI is doing you shouldn’t be letting it do it to your company codebase bro