The silver lining is realizing that many of my mgmt never cared about good code or quality to begin with. So I was fooling myself. The AI/LLM excitement just makes it more obvious now.
If you did it for management yes.
But that's soviet bureucracy and Potempkin villages with extra steps.
So much this. No one ever really cared about “good code” except some engineers who took an irrational amount of pride in their code.