It doesn’t necessarily mean shipping faster either. Speeding up code production doesn’t mean it speeds up qa, compliance, and the litany of other things. Everyone seems to forget Amdahl’s law.

Code quality matters to engineers. Find a senior manager who cares. Or worse, find a customer who cares.

While they obviously want a high quality product, no outages, a responsive system etc, I don’t think they necessarily understand why you need to avoid creating god-objects, need to reason about abstractions, etc.

On a task by task basis the code Claude generates is pretty good these days. The biggest issue I see is that it wants to rearchitect the code constantly and I have no faith in my tests anymore because Claude will just "fix" them

Thats why they said they optimize for effective output at the cost of higher token use. They didn’t say they are intending to have high token use, instead thet implied its a second order effect of seeking more effective output.

They don't care about quality as long as it works enough. It's a clown show all the way through.

American software engineers are paid commensurately more than equivalent roles in countries with strong worker rights. There is no free lunch.

Besides, it's probably counterproductive in the long run to think of strong worker rights as being opposed to the employer wanting higher productivity out of the worker.

Be careful what you are wishing for. All the leisure time you would want while having no job or money could be the future we are heading for.