Also, when people say 'read the code' do they really mean go line by line, or review the pseudo code? Meaning, read the high level architecture/data flow.
Because IMO the code matters very little if you have the proper testing environment and guardrails, the architecture always matters.
Now it's basically the same but they love it because it's only their teammates who have to put in the work not them.
This all implodes when the teammates get fed up and just approve everything.
Some people write terrible code. Some people don’t proofread their own code. Some people are writing code in a second (or third!) language and the typos are harder to spot and comments are harder to formulate.
It’s a bit like the variance you could expect from asking a room full of people to write a 1-page short story on a specific topic (e.g. “death of a loved one”). Some of those short stories will be unreadable, and some of the people who wrote those terrible stories will have no idea how bad they are. Except now, enter AI, and the room generates the short story instead - who has the skills to determine whether their short story isn’t terrible?