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I fixed a bug in ten minutes that could've cost me hours, and felt nothing. The fix worked. The understanding never showed up. On what actually goes missing when you let the tool think first.

AI made the first version easy. Everything after that (the scaling, the edge cases, the maintenance) still takes real engineering. On growing alongside LLMs.

With AI-assisted coding, software engineers are becoming product engineers and architects, leaning into system design, collaboration, and iteration with LLMs.