I've written before about my experience at a shop like this. The null check would swallow the exception and do nothing about the failure so things just errored silently. Many high fives and haughty remarks about how smart the team was for doing this were had at the expense of lesser teams that didn't. The whole operation ran on a hackneyed MVP architecture from a Learning Tree class a guy took in 2008 and snippets stolen from StackOverflow and passed around on a USB key. Deviation from this bible was heresy and rebuked with sharp, unprofessional behavior. It was not a good place to work for those who value independent thought.

> AI vibe coding is an accelerant on this style of not knowing why something works but seeing what you want on the screen.

I've been saying this exact thing for years now. It also does the whole CRUD app "copy, paste, find, replace from another part of the application" workflow for building new domains very well. If you can bootstrap a codebase with good architectural practices and tests then Claude Code is a productivity godsend for building business apps.