as someone who worked for a car manufacturer, you are wrong.
What people perceive as a quality car, is often a lack of understanding. Some think they are driving a fine car, but someone who pays attention notices that the door gaps are not uniform, that the plastic on the inside will start to smell bad in summer, that you will get a lot more fatigue because of wind noise and tire noise, that the sound of the door being slammed shut is very hollow instead of a nice THUNK, that the automatic gear box often eats its gears, especially when driving slow, ...
There are many details normal people don't even notice about their cars, and then they claim it is a quality car. It is not, I am sorry, and it is the perfect analogy for this ChatGPT/Bard being a code generator.
I am not entirely certain you aren't joking. Everything you mention is felt by the layman and it is comically daft that you would assume it requires some kind of special power.
Getting these things right takes extra effort. If the customer didn't care, it would not be done.
Certainly, not every layman will be able tell you in so many words WHY it's nice and everyone cares about different things in a product (while it's the designers job to care about all of them)
But that was not really the contention now, was it.
The very definition of a quality product is one that the user is happy with.
If the user doesn't notice the door gaps, then it isn't a quality issue. If the user doesn't drive the car enough to wear out the suboptimal gearbox, then it isn't a quality issue.
Yes, this means that the definition of quality depends on the needs of the user.
What people perceive as a quality car, is often a lack of understanding. Some think they are driving a fine car, but someone who pays attention notices that the door gaps are not uniform, that the plastic on the inside will start to smell bad in summer, that you will get a lot more fatigue because of wind noise and tire noise, that the sound of the door being slammed shut is very hollow instead of a nice THUNK, that the automatic gear box often eats its gears, especially when driving slow, ...
There are many details normal people don't even notice about their cars, and then they claim it is a quality car. It is not, I am sorry, and it is the perfect analogy for this ChatGPT/Bard being a code generator.