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Designing, constraining, and reviewing AI-assisted implementation work.
AI automates ticket-sized implementation, so the junior bar moves from syntax to independence, system thinking, security, and communication.
The same model in different hands produces different systems: decomposition, constraints, review, and decision-making separate engineering from vibe coding.
AI has made code cheap to produce; engineering — architecture, security, maintainability — is what businesses still pay developers for.