AI made the writing free. It made nothing else free
A model wrote most of a service I shipped this month. Reading it took twenty minutes. Deciding I was willing to put my name on it took the rest of the day. That ratio is the whole post. Writing code was never the expensive part. Owning it is. I’ve been in this trade long enough to remember when typing was a real bottleneck. It stopped being one around the time autocomplete got good, and nobody noticed, because we kept measuring engineers by output. Lines, tickets, velocity. Proxies for the cheapest activity in the building. ...