3 posts found.
The should-EMs-code debate is a false binary. The builder-manager model — coding to understand, not to ship — is the third path that survives AI flattening, earns team trust, and creates organizational leverage.
AI coding agents are great at generating new code but catastrophically bad at long-term maintenance. I tested them on real codebases — here is what actually breaks, why, and the engineering guardrails that make them usable.
AI coding assistants are powerful, but using them without structure leads to unmaintainable code, eroded skills, and team dysfunction. Here is how to use AI deliberately.