I looove cleaning up/refactoring old code, improving build systems, writing tests, etc. I've been contracting part-time at a place for a couple of years now, an

I looove cleaning up/refactoring old code, improving build systems, writing tests, etc. I've been contracting part-time at a place for a couple of years now, and that's basically all I do. I suspect there's going to be a greater need for people like me in the near future. I don't think that the code LLMs or agents produce is any better or worse than the code it was trained on. Not to sound too judgmental or condescending, but there's a lot of crap out there. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned, because I have made a nice bit of extra cash cleaning that crap up. I imagine the description of what I do is going to go from "I'm being paid to fix issues caused by years of accumulated technical debt" to the title of this post. Ironically, AI helps me with my job to some extent, but I usually end up rewriting most of the code it generates because it follows the same bad patterns I'm trying to address.