I've seen too much of the same. It strikes me that the pattern you describe also matches a lot of AI generated code I see, especially when it's big chunks of generated code. Are we automating this problem and going all-in on the long term costs?
100% yes. The most dangerous developers you’ll ever work with are the tactical tornadoes who crap out extraordinary amounts of code that mostly implements the exact feature that product asked them for with zero thought given to any other concerns.
AI makes these types of developers much more dangerous because they will accept anything the AI generates tha looks like it works, and they’re experienced at pushing nonsense through code reviews.
AI also provides more of a “productivity” boost to these types of developers because unlike everyone else they actually spend the majority of their time typing code.
This was the case before AI tho, people were copying coding patterns from companies randomly even without understanding. I mean there was an interview with some DoorDash architect that literally stated that whatever their architecture was just fad chasing at that moment.
Every company I've ever worked at (from ISPs to health insurance to finance) every organize was just copying the fad of something else.
At the time I felt like it was because that was "the best way" but it was more likely do to engineers not having the freedom to actually explore good solutions. The made up constraints imposed by organizations against their workers are rarely for the benefit of the company.
It's not a surprise to see this being the case, most companies on the planet are ran like centrally planned dictatorships with the results being obvious in retrospect.
