LLMs don't build muscle memory — they rent it.
Fragments
Short-form thinking on software craft, AI's effect on developer skill, engineering philosophy, and what we lose when we optimize for speed over depth.
We met the product requirements and nobody asked how. This is not a success — it is a silent disappearance.
A tool's last commit date speaks more honestly than its documentation.
We trained LLMs on our own code. Now we instruct them to write better code, without caring that the next models will be trained only on their own output. The loop is not improving.
You can't make a developer who finishes a month's work in a day write code anymore.
AI and Programming: We are producing developers who can architect systems but can’t write code.
I’m sure you remember that small hesitation when writing "return" — I do too. And how deep the reason goes genuinely surprised me.