Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

kept by eddie jul 21

Engineering management must refocus on auditing assumptions, measuring business outcomes, and owning specification and accountability, as AI-driven code production makes traditional output metrics misleading.

LLMs and performative productivity - Josh Collinsworth blog
LLMs often create the illusion of productivity while actually reducing real output through cognitive debt, maintenance overhead, and misaligned incentives.
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You’re Not Taking On Enough Tech Debt
Because LLMs drastically lower the cost of cleaning up messy code, engineers should take more intentional technical debt now and trust future models to service it.
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