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A developer producing AI slop without caring about code quality would have done the same with hand written code. He just writes more of it. Your job is to make him care.

A developer argues that engineers who produce low-quality code with AI assistance would have done the same with hand-written code, just writing more of it. The responsibility falls on teams to foster a culture that values code quality.

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A developer producing AI slop without caring about code quality would have done the same with hand written code. He just writes more of it. Your job is to make him care.
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A developer producing AI slop without caring about code quality would have done the same with hand written code. He just writes more of it. Your job is to make him care.

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