Every clean code practice we follow was invented to solve a human problem. But what happens when humans are no longer the primary audience of source code? A senior developer’s honest reckoning with AI-driven development and what it means for the craft.
Clean Code Is Dead (And I Hate That I Agree)The most valuable developer skill right now isn't writing more code faster. It's learning unfamiliar codebases, building context that guides decisions, planning strategic approaches to problems, and shipping production code…
You Think, AI Executes: The Skills That Actually MatterNew research shows experienced developers are 19% slower with AI tools — but feel 20% faster. I walk through three major studies that prove AI isn’t making us faster, and share the confidence boundary framework for knowing what to delegate and what to keep.
I’ve been producing bad code (because of AI)