Every engineer now has a code-producing machine in their hot hands - and we’re fast approaching the moment that using AI tools as an engineer is something you can no longer realistically avoid. Even if you somehow manage to avoid using them yourself, you will still need to adapt to the fact that most, if not all, of your colleagues are now using them and contributing to the same codebase you are. The question: what can individual contributors do to help maintain quality when it’s so much easier to create than to edit?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/ai-can-code-but-it-doesnt-care-about-quality