The WORST AI Career Path: Meat Proxy

<p><a href="https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">I&#39;m opening 12 spots for a weekend workshop in October for devs who want to ship quality software with agents.</a></p><p><a href="https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Sign up here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U</a></p><p><em>&quot;You&#39;re absolutely right, I should have caught that&quot;</em></p><p>I&#39;m one of the top 10% of AI users in a 1,000-person engineering org this year. I&#39;m not an AI hater, I ship with these tools daily and I think they&#39;re genuinely fun to use. But I&#39;ve also watched &quot;customers don&#39;t care about the code&quot; turn into an excuse for engineers to stop thinking entirely, and that&#39;s how you end up with 5,000 lines nobody can explain, a catastrophic bug in prod, and Claude cheerfully saying on the way down.</p><p>Let&#39;s explore ways to maintain quality software without becoming a &quot;meat proxy&quot;</p><p><br></p>