Well, the incompetent will find a way to make it work. Since management usually only cares about that, it will be fine. The competent who dont give a damn will basically result to vibe coding and receive similar results. Just with lower cost.

It's interesting how personal experience colors this view.

Personally I've had the odd colleague who didn't care, but they typically moved on, or got moved on, after a while.

But lots of people here have obviously experienced it, perhaps at multiple places, and so project that to "all companies".

I guess it does matter where you work, and perhaps numbering staff in thousands, or tens of thousands, means you end up with a lot of dross?