> The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft... Which is an incentive problem, they have like

> The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft... Which is an incentive problem, they have likely reached an equilibrium with their company. Genuinely few companies provide any incentive and critically, the space, to ship good code. Because frankly it doesn't matter in the middle grounds. Which is where 90% of developers are. I wish we all had fulfilling edge of our seat projects to work on, that challenged us just right, mattered to our community etc. AI is absolutely poised to disrupt the middle 80% of development because the middle 80% of dev is not that important or hard. It's just a shame for all of us who loved the craft, and didn't mind being in the middle making a living. That's a totally noble place to be, and it could get taken away from many of us.