Three things have to hold before I let the agent rebase end-to-end and push without reading the diff: solo code, code I know, and real QA plus automation behind me. Pull any one out and the workflow…
On consecutive days, one of the most craft-obsessed programmers alive argued for the craft and predicted the market would stop rewarding it. I think I land somewhere in between.
AI is fast. Humans are slow. The joke writes itself. But the question underneath it — where do I fit in this? — keeps following me around.
AI-generated code can ship in minutes. But speed without verification is just technical debt with a faster delivery truck. Here are the practices that actually improve reliability.
AI rewired how I build software. The joy is real. So is the stress, the confusion, and the nagging feeling that we are still configuring the future instead of living in it.
A one-page debate on whether the nonsense-looking code AI still ships should worry us more than the working features it unlocks.