I think we're being set up to be corn kings. A corn king is someone who the tribe makes the king, obey his every command, lavish him with wealth and pampering, all as long as things are going well. As soon as the corn harvest comes in a little bit short, we sacrifice the corn king to the gods in order to regain their favor and fix the harvest. No one cares about code quality and I can spend my days being richly rewarded for telling Claude what to do and then blindly shipping its output til we have a major prod outage or security breach, whereupon I am taken out back and shot.