AI made production cheap, so output no longer proves understanding. The work that still pays has moved upstream.
Read →AI is a multiplier, and a multiplier does not care what it is multiplying. The skill worth building sits upstream of the prompt.
Read →The cost is not having the design discussion once. It is having it again five projects later, because the answer never became reusable.
Read →An assistant can be right and still leave someone stuck. What decides whether an answer is usable sits around it, not inside it.
Read →A release can pass every check and still not be good. The second question is the same question grown up, and it needs a standard behind it rather than a feeling.
Read →When standards travel with the code, governance starts before review. The responsibility is keeping the decisions behind those standards right.
Read →A tool can hand over a finished-looking screen in seconds. What it cannot supply is the standard we were going to judge it against.
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