Velocity-vs-quality Memes

The hot take that's dividing the tech world: AI-generated code has officially normalized "good enough" as the new standard. The argument goes that while pre-AI devs obsessed over clean code, optimal algorithms, and elegant solutions, now everyone's just shipping whatever ChatGPT spits out and calling it a day. The brutal reality check here is that if you're still doing code reviews like it's 2019 while your competitors are deploying features at breakneck speed with AI-assisted "slop," you're basically bringing a fountain pen to a keyboard fight. The market doesn't care if your variable names are perfectly semantic or if you followed SOLID principles—it cares if the feature shipped yesterday. That comment though? "we all died in 2020 and this is hell" has 85.7K likes for a reason. The existential dread of watching software craftsmanship get steamrolled by velocity metrics hits different.