> Maybe you’ll never write the code that keeps a plane in the sky. Maybe you’ll never push bits that hold a human life in the balance. Fine. Most don’t. But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity.
This is moral grandstanding. You owe your customers a good product at a low cost. If you don't use a tool that can lower costs, you are wronging your users and will go out of business.
Handcrafted CRUD will go the same way as handcrafted anything; an expensive niche hobby.
I disagree. For the kind of relationships I want with other humans, respect and dignity are my end of the bargain.
what does that even mean?
Users don't care if code is written by a human or AI; they care that the code gives them what they need, hopefully in a fairly pleasant manner.