> Is it just me or are we heading into a period of explosion of software done, but also a massive drop of its quality? Not uniformly, just a bit of chaotic spread

I think we are, especially with executives mandating the use LLMs use and expecting it to massively reduce costs and increase output.

For the most part they don't actually seem to care that much about software quality, and tend to push to decrease quality at every opportunity.

Which is frightening, because it's not like our industry is known for producing really high quality code at the starting point before LLM authored code.

> llms nor those juniors for such an important work.

Yeah we shouldn’t and I limit my usage to stuff that is easily verifiable.

But there’s no guardrails on this stuff, and one thing that’s not well considered is how these things which make us more powerful and productive can be destructive in the hands of well intentioned people.

> those juniors

I'm betting they're the most senior people on the team.