2026-03 - W1

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Engineering Harder.

This blog post resonated a lot with me. I wonder what will happen in a few months if everyone is fully delegating all their tasks to the LLMs… No one will understand what is happening underneath.

More product thinking. More architectural decision-making. More code review. More context switching. More planning. More testing oversight. More deployment awareness. More risk assessment.

The scope of what it means to be a “software engineer” expanded dramatically in the last two years, and it happened without a pause to catch up.

Is it ok? That made me remind of this blog post as well as this one.

But democratizing creation without solving understanding is a disaster waiting to happen. Acceleration without understanding just makes things more dangerous, and right now the entire industry is accelerating while understanding falls further behind.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

I read this blog post. This is sadly true. There’s a huge bias, I’m the first to be “affected”, judge someone’s competence based on whether the project/topic they solve was complex or not… When something is simple, there’s no fanfare and congratulation etc… Even the person themselves doesn’t consider having done something incredible. Maybe it’s human’s nature? I don’t know, I think it’s just easy to blame something else when one can think it more through instead.

Complexity looks smart. Not because it is, but because our systems are set up to reward it. And the incentive problem doesn’t start at promotion time. It starts before you even get the job.