When AI Prototypes Become Shared Software
AI agents can turn experiments into software that others depend on. As that dependency grows, so do the responsibilities. How should teams expand agent autonomy while keeping systems understandable, maintainable,...
The Engineer is Not the Typist: AI Coding, Meat Proxies, and Engineering Ownership
Using AI to write code does not make someone a “meat proxy.” Giving up engineering judgment does. Software development has always relied on delegation. We depend on libraries, frameworks, compilers,...
I Would Rather Work in a Messy Codebase That Works
AI-generated code is often treated like it belongs in the “messy code” bucket. But the bigger risk is that it usually belongs somewhere more dangerous: clean code that does not...