It is extremely annoying when you have a certain problem that surely should have someone making a solution for it and then you find a blog post. And in the end blog post doesn't actually solve the issue as it does has final step. But actually never implemented the most important middle bits. Thankfully I found someone who had actually solved that middle bit in workable hack. But still those blogs are really annoying pollution.

My question is always, "Am I willing to maintain this code?"

Sometimes that's a yes, even if AI generated it and I can tell despite someone making half an effort to be a human for a minute during the PR process. But sometimes it's not.

It gets really dicey when you've kept an architecture a certain shape because there's a difficult feature you intend to slot into the negative space. There are two or three ways to implement that feature, and the one they chose just stomps all through your potential. But that's why we have code reviews. You don't have to read my mind if I just tell you. But it can be frustrating if someone asks you to do it a different way, and then has comments on how you accomplished that, and then comments on the fixes for your other comments.