Don’t Automate the Fun
I approved my own PR and felt nothing. Over-delegating to AI didn’t just make my work fragile — it made it boring. The fix wasn’t using less AI. It was flipping who leads.
Don’t Automate the FunI approved my own PR and felt nothing. Over-delegating to AI didn’t just make my work fragile — it made it boring. The fix wasn’t using less AI. It was flipping who leads.
Don’t Automate the FunIn 1982 skaters named a trick “the impossible” because the physics said it couldn’t exist. Decades later a 1000fps camera revealed why it can — and what that has to do with your job as a developer.
AI Didn’t Take Your Job – It Revealed ItLast 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