The mistake AI consultants keep making on brownfield work is treating edit accuracy as the risk.
It is not. The risk is ripple. The cascade through coupling no analysis can fully see.
https://t.co/36YPXTgqbH
For decades I told teams: with proper planning, the rest is just hammers and nails.
I believed it. I could never quite sustain it. The build always stalled on gaps the spec missed.
AI did not invent hammers and nails. It lets the build run uninterrupted.
https://t.co/V5o8QvssyU
The central position, after a year of doing this work:
AI has changed everything about software development.
Except the need for developers.
The architect mindset matters more than it used to, not less.
After a year of AI work on real client projects, I'm starting a 5-part series.
The software development lifecycle has shifted. The cost curve has inverted. The leverage moved from the keyboard to the blueprint.
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March 17: made the interview round.
March 18: started building.
March 26: walked in with a live system.
April 17: awarded the contract.
Just finished the 5-part technical series on what we learned. Part 5 ships today: Lexical rich text rendering.
https://t.co/sTJRxZZfxv
Sunday rant. Posted yesterday on LinkedIn.
A former Amazon manager explained why she quit before the layoffs hit her team. She said she felt she wasn't worth the money the company was paying her, and the company wasn't worth the life she was giving it.
That got me thinking.
https://t.co/7ljzwfGULm
Corporations had a chance to give people their lives back with AI.
They chose margins instead.
That's why the backlash is here. Molotov cocktails at Sam Altman's house. Public approval cratering. Data center protests. Layoff after layoff with AI cited as the reason.
The backlash isn't AI's fault. It's how the corporate world chose to deploy it.
We had a generational opportunity. AI could have made the eight-hour workday obsolete. Tim Ferriss wrote about a four-hour work week 20 years ago and most people treated it as a lifestyle hack. With AI, it could have been industrial reality.
Instead corporations saw one thing. A way to cut costs.
Same output, fewer people. Same revenue, lower payroll. The productivity gain didn't flow back to workers as time. It flowed up as margin.
That's the choice driving the backlash. Not the technology. The framing.
I believe AI can improve our lives. I've seen it in my own work. Tasks that used to take days take hours. I can take on work alone that would have needed a team before.
But here's what most people miss. AI can handle the load. Human cognitive bandwidth cannot. Even with AI doing the heavy lifting, context-switching drains the person running it. The bottleneck isn't headcount. It's attention.
Imagine a team collaborating with AI. Not replaced by AI. A team where each person has AI extending their range, and the team absorbs the cognitive switching. That's a productivity gain we haven't started measuring.
Why are we still working eight hours a day? That schedule made sense for factory work. We kept it long after the work changed. With AI compressing the work further, it makes less sense than it ever has.
The companies that win this won't be the ones cutting hardest. They'll be the ones who use AI to give people more time, more impact, more reason to stay.
Cost-cutters win the next quarter. Life-givers win the next decade.
The backlash isn't a sign AI is wrong. It's a sign we're using it wrong.
AI made development 10x faster.
Nobody told me it would also make it 10x more exhausting.
The cognitive load of reviewing, validating, and context-switching at AI speed is the part the demos never show you.
This is real. I'm living it. The speed left me in awe, disbelief, and honestly a bit scared. It made that much of an impact that I shifted my entire business model.
Two weeks. Three major projects. React, Python, Go, AWS deployments. Languages I'd never used. What would have taken several months, done in 14 days.
But it wasn't just coding. Technical specifications. Proposals. Documentation. Everything moved at an exponential rate.
I knew something was there but wasn't sure what. Then I experienced it firsthand.
Not because I have all the answers. I don't. Whatever shift I made today might need to change again in 2-3 months given how fast AI is advancing.
But I'd rather be an early adapter adjusting as I go than waiting on the sidelines trying to figure it out.
I don't know where this is going to lead. But I know it's going to shake up our lives. And that's an understatement.
Looking forward to 2026 where 2025 was filled with uncertainty about AI and jobs. Had a fascinating conversation about AI writing versus creative writing and where AI still falls short.
Full thoughts on LinkedIn: https://t.co/uQGthagEO0
Just published a personal post on how my journey into tech began—before CSS, before cloud, before "web development" was even a thing.
It's also the story of how WAM DevTech came to be—and why we believe in quiet, respectful modernization.
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