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Well. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product and a system that builds it. Not a bunch of slop thrown over the wall that I have to then debug and fix.

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The AI is pretty good at debugging and fixing it. It's quite a bit better at it than writing the code, to be honest.

And, you're right, I used to enjoy my job a lot more before AI. But in the end, the paychecks keep coming, and I can produce a lot of acceptable code quickly with little skill. Skill in coding no longer makes economic sense.

This approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time

Maybe. Challenge for you: take the last 10 production outages, and paste the symptoms into Fable or Opus 5, and ask it for a diagnosis.

How many does it one shot in less time than your outage lasted?

Yup, if you know what to point it at - where does _that_ skill come from? Experience.

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