Best Practices Are Someone Else's Context
A best practice is a compressed argument, and the compression drops the context that made it true. AI now hands me the answer instantly, argument discarded.
Busy Is Not the Same as Useful
I mistook a full calendar for a useful one for years. Then AI ate the busywork I was hiding behind and left me alone with the quiet part that actually mattered.
Your Estimate Was Never the Problem
I spent years chasing accurate estimates. The real failure was giving one number when I owed a range — and AI writing the code makes that honesty matter more.
Technical Debt Is a People Problem
I treated technical debt as bad code and my cleanups never held. It's fossilized human trouble — and AI writing our code widens that gap, not closes it.