Write lots of code now and statistically look great, while the impact won’t be felt for a much larger range of time.
With the job search and whatnot then yeah, caring becomes a lot more important. That’s true.
It's not immediate, it still takes weeks if you want to actually do QA and roll out to prod, but it's definitely better than the pre-LLM alternatives.
AI will make this dynamic worse, and it's got the extra danger of the default banal way of applying the technology in fact encourages it's application to that end.
I also don't think that the commodification of programming is a substitute for things like understanding your customers, having good taste for design, and designing software in a way that is maximally iterable.
With the right investment, we could certainly have tooling that creates and maintains very good designs out of the box. My bet is that we'll continue chasing quick and hacky code, mostly because that's the majority of the code that it was trained on, and because the majority of people seem to be interested in a quick result vs a long-term maintainable one.
That the industry was already routinely dealing with fires of it's own creation is not a valid reason to start cooking with gasoline.
What would normally be considered overengineered gold plating is "free" now.