As a Senior IC, I carry this massive expectation to be the guardian of the code. But I’ve almost entirely stopped looking at or reviewing code. My workflow has completely flipped — from writing and reviewing syntax to specs, agent execution, and validation. This is my professional coming out moment.
We are watching the AI industry commit the original sin of the web all over again. For the last two years, we’ve obsessed over Context Engineering, treating Agents like static, PHP-era websites. When a user asks a question, the system performs a “database fetch” on demand, pulling context just in time to generate an answer. We haven’t reinvented software; we’ve just replaced the mouse click with a prompt, keeping the same brittle, pull-based architecture underneath....