AI fluency is becoming the most important skill in software development — but the models and tools needed to build it cost real money. The access gap is creating a two-tier developer class.
The Most Important Skill in Tech Is Too Expensive to LearnThat anxiety you feel scrolling AI threads at 11 PM? It’s not going away. Even engineers building AI daily don’t feel AI literate. Here’s why — and what to do about it.
No Developer Feels AI Literate Right Now — Not Even the Ones Building ItA few weeks ago, I wrote about The Review Bottleneck — how AI-generated code comes with so much confident explanation that we’ve stopped actually reviewing it. We’re not doing more…
AI Code Reviews Are Backwards (Do This Instead)Last week I spent 3 hours reviewing code that took 20 minutes to write. The AI was faster. The review wasn’t. And I’m starting to realize: that’s the problem. “Less…
The Review Bottleneck: Why AI Explanations Are Making Us Trust Less, Not MoreAI-generated 847 lines in 12 minutes felt like god mode. But the review took longer than writing it would have. A deep dive into vibe coding, the hidden cost of AI-first development, and why I’m sticking with the terminal + AI pair programming.
Are We Still Developers? The Hidden Cost of Vibe CodingAI agents are shipping code while developers sleep. The job is changing—we are becoming task organizers, configuration engineers, and quality evaluators. How much can we trust AI before our caution becomes a liability? A personal reflection on skill atrophy, the prompt-and-trust workflow, and what it means to be a developer in 2026.
The Developer Identity Crisis