My Best Senior Engineer Refused to Use AI for One Week. By Friday, He Said Something Nobody
2026-10-31
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A Medium story about a senior engineer who leaned on AI for coding, testing and debugging, then gave it up for a week. His output dropped, as he expected. What he had not expected was to start seeing problems in the system and its architecture that he had stopped noticing while the AI handled the details, which suggests that handing over the implementation can hand over the attention too.
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