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The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.
As software engineers, we should measure our contribution not in lines of code generated, but in reliable, well-designed systems that are easy to change and a pleasure to use. Each of our many decisions may make sense in the moment, but over time they accumulate, and before we know it we find ourselves working in what feels like a legacy codebase—despite trying at every turn to avoid that outcome. All of this makes it more critical than ever to evaluate contributions not by how many lines of code you touched, but by your impact on how reliable, understandable, and changeable the resulting system will be.
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