AI can help you do your job, don't let it do your job. If AI does your job, well your not need then. There is no reason to compromise because we have AI. This was an interesting trap that I already tried. One theory I had was that possibly we could lower the quality and compensate with AI. You might immediately think that's dumb but it's not as stupid as you think. One of the interesting side effects of microservices was that it actually enabled less good software design. And it was a good thing. Because creating large monolithic applications requires a lot of diligence in design. But when you created microservices, because the scope was much smaller and there were fewer people working on it, you could get away with simpler, less rigid patterns. This actually increased agility with negligible effect on quality. And it wasn't bad. The bad thing about microservices is we just ended up with too many things and too many things cause a huge amount of maintenance overhead and a lot of decreased efficiency. But what I'm finding with AI is if you reduce your expectation of quality and then you combine that with the implicit pressure to move faster, you get a compounding effect of really poor results over time. So with AI you very actively need to push back to slow down and keep quality but figure out how to enforce that quality more efficiently by leveraging AI. Everyone who's getting so excited about the amount of crap they're pushing out with AI is just shooting themselves in the foot. Because that crap doesn't provide value. It basically just makes them look good on X for one day. Use AI to increase the value. Use AI to amplify the value that you have to offer.