You correct someone once. Not perfectly, but they get it. Next time, they do not make the same mistake. That is not optimism. That is just how correction works, "with people". I worked with agents on that assumption for a long time before I even not...

A team lead announces that the team will start using AI-assisted development. Everyone nods. Nobody asks what that actually means on Monday morning. Some times ago I was in that position. A project I was working on needed to start using AI-assisted ...

I got a PR to review recently. Large diff, AI-assisted, touching a module three other features depended on. The description was one sentence. It named the file, not the reason. I spent fifteen minutes just mapping the change before I could start rev...

I have reviewed code for years, and for most of that time the habit was simple. Open the diff. Read every line. Find what is wrong. It worked, and it worked for a boring reason: the diffs were small because writing code by hand is slow. The diffs ar...

Most software engineers I know use AI in some form now. Maybe it is for debugging, boilerplate, tests, docs, SQL queries, shell commands, or quick code reviews. Some use it daily. Some use it quietly. Even the skeptical ones have probably pasted a c...