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I've worked with both types. Some prolific devs really do care, and are just really good at their job.

Others are just trying to get code done, and don't care about quality. These are the types that are upset that their code gets rejected because their goal is advancement and money, and not doing a good job.

FWIW, it's okay to care about both. But if you don't care about doing a good job, you're going to drive everyone around you insane.

Prolific bad coders are a bane on the company, and AI is only going to make them worse.

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Sure but if PRs get rejected, nobody has to "tidy upp (sic) later".

That's not prolific, that's just producing slop, with AI otherwise.

I'm just tired of developers pretending that low output is some sort of silver bullet for quality, and high-output is automatic slop. Neither are true. In 99% of cases, low output doesn't correlate with anything positive. High-output can naturally go either way, but slop doesn't make one "prolific".

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