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Does Code Quality Still Matter? It Depends on This — Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One

AI Engineer· 864K subscribers

3d ago · English audio

Every senior engineer's answer is "it depends." Max Kanat-Alexander says what it actually depends on. Code quality always existed for two things: understanding a system and safely changing it. AI is making a new kind of software common: disposable software, with low consequences, few dependents and near-zero cost to replace or maintain. For that software, quality doesn't matter. For durable software it matters more…

30.2×Above the channel median
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