Nobody Brags About Not Walking 📎
"AI engineers" established a new genre of bragging: how little of the code was written by hand, what percentage the agent generated, how many days since the last manually typed line. The proportion of generated code became the achievement.
Over a century ago, transportation made walking optional. Since then, nobody has opened a story with "I didn't walk here." People talk about where they went.
"Brag about arriving, not about not walking. Brag about shipping, not about not coding."
The users cannot tell a generated line from a typed one, and the maintainers only care whether it is simple and tested. The important details remain the same: the software went into production, it is secure and easy to change, and it works.