> I think about what other people (or future versions of myself) will struggle with when interacting with the code.
This feels like the sign of a good developer!
On the other hand, sometimes you just need executable line noise that gets the job done by Thursday so you can ship it and think about refactoring later.
As far as AI code goes, more often than not, it will read as something very generic, which is not necessarily a bad thing. When opening yet another Java CRUD project, I’d be more happy to see someone copy and pasting working code from tutorials or resources online (while it still works correctly), as opposed to seeing people develop bespoke systems on top of what a framework provides for every project.
> On the other hand, sometimes you just need executable line noise that gets the job done by Thursday so you can ship it and think about refactoring later.
This is a problem too. ChatGPT enables you to write bad code.
It's like Adobe Flash: flash using websites didn't have to be slow, but it was easy to make a slow website with it.
This feels like the sign of a good developer!
On the other hand, sometimes you just need executable line noise that gets the job done by Thursday so you can ship it and think about refactoring later.
As far as AI code goes, more often than not, it will read as something very generic, which is not necessarily a bad thing. When opening yet another Java CRUD project, I’d be more happy to see someone copy and pasting working code from tutorials or resources online (while it still works correctly), as opposed to seeing people develop bespoke systems on top of what a framework provides for every project.