When AI handles implementation, the human job shifts from doing the work to understanding the work. Speed without understanding is just technical debt with better commit messages.
We’ve been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That’s not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew
Most knowledge work never finishes. It just stops. The start, ship, close, and sum-up methodology creates deliberate moments that turn continuous work into resolved units.
I keep noticing people talk about AI like it’s a wave that’s about to hit them. “Will it take my job?” “How do we adopt it fast enough?” “How do we…