Does Code Quality Still Matter?
· 9 min read
Everyone's quietly asking this. The answer isn't as obvious as it used to be.
An agent writes 400 lines. Tests pass. Lint clean. I can't tell whether the decisions in it are good or just plausible. And if nobody's reading this line-by-line anymore — what does "quality" even mean here?
A note: this is where my thinking is today — June 2026. The tooling is moving fast. Some of what follows might look different in six months.