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Latest Writing
AI Is Why
AI tooling compresses the low stakes work out of an engineer's day. What fills the gap is not rest or recovery. It's more evaluation. The leaders who miss this are running depletion schedules, not engineering orgs.
This was never about the tool
When an engineer says 'ChatGPT recommended something else' to close a technical debate, that's not a technology problem. It's a culture problem you already had. AI just gave it a name.
The mandate playbook doesn't work on adults either
I spent time in a thread with 500+ engineers saying AI destroyed their love of coding. The pattern wasn't the tool. It was the rollout. Here's the difference between a mandate and a leader who actually shows up.