Quality is not rewarded at most companies, it's not going to turn into more money, it might turn into less work later, but in all likelihood, the author won't be around to reap the benefits of less work later because they will have moved onto another company.
On the contrary, since more effort doesn't yield more money, but less effort can yield the same money, the strategy is to contract the time spent on work to the smallest amount, LLMs are currently the best way to do that.
I don't see why this has to be framed as a bad thing.
Why should anyone care about the quality of software that they don't use?
If you wouldn't work on it unless you were paid to, and you can leave if and when it becomes a problem, then why spend mental energy writing even a single line?
On the contrary, since more effort doesn't yield more money, but less effort can yield the same money, the strategy is to contract the time spent on work to the smallest amount, LLMs are currently the best way to do that.
I don't see why this has to be framed as a bad thing. Why should anyone care about the quality of software that they don't use? If you wouldn't work on it unless you were paid to, and you can leave if and when it becomes a problem, then why spend mental energy writing even a single line?