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.
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.
What You Lose When AI Writes Your Code
AI writes the first draft and it feels like pure speed. But performance isn't learning — the struggle you skip is the exact thing that made you an engineer.