The Builder’s
Leader

Your leadership thinks you'll code in 3 seconds, read and understand it all, push to production without breaking stride, and never forget anything. They've never watched a junior engineer prompt through complexity he should have wrestled with. Never seen a senior freeze when the AI suggestion doesn't match the pattern she knows is right. Never been in the room when the thing that 'should just work' ... doesn't.

You're asking engineers if they know how to use AI tools. You expect it. Then you're testing them without those tools. Here's why that mismatch is eroding trust before the first offer letter goes out.

I've seen engineers lose the spark in their eyes in their craft having to just plan and review the output. The sheer pace of AI is wearing down engineers.