No I think the argument is more like… on average the code AI produces is better than what the majority of developers were producing before AI. Don’t forget HN crowd is the exception. The people that post here are like 1% of total programmers that like this as more than just a job. The industry at large, 99%, is just people doing their job writing average to poor code and going home. AI does that better now.

There was a time we all on HN agreed that contracting out the code was a bad idea. That ownership of the code was important, and if you sent your code out to a one off contractor it would come back as unmaintainable liability.

The shift in thinking leads me to believe that the real reason HN hated contracting out the code was the fact that you had to pay the contractors for their work.

where is the code that was universally accepted to be good?