& I have thus far made a large portion of my living off of fixing bad code "later".

… but lately, the rate at which some dev with an LLM can just churn out new bad code has just shot through the roof. I can still be struggling to pick apart the last piece of slop, trying to figure out "okay, if someone with a brain had written this, what would the inputs & outputs be?" and "what is it that production actually needs and relies on, and what causes problems, and how can we get the code from point A to point B without more outages"; but in the meantime, someone has spit out 8 more modules of the same "quality".

So sure, the basic tenants haven't changed, but these days I feel like I'm drowning in outages & bugs.

The irony is that "good" code and good documentation have top priority now in most orgs. For decades the best developers have been screaming about good code and documentation but leadership couldn't give a fuck. But now that their favorite nepobaby is here, now it's the most important thing all of a sudden.

I was told by an exec...once a company or technology implements something and gets mindshare, the community (including companies) moves on.

Competition is essentially dead for that segment given there is always outward growth.

With that being said, AI enables smaller players to implement their visions with enough completeness to be viable. And with a hands off approach to code, the underlying technology mindshare does not matter as much.

I disagree, Electron showed the world that good code can be magnetic

... I'll see myself out