AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.
Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.
Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.
Git tells us what changed. ADRs tell us why we chose an architecture. But when AI writes the code, we need something new: a record of intent.
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.