A lot of engineering teams use AI heavily, are struggling with slop, and still care about craft.

The current zeitgeist shills "vibe-coding", claims "coding is solved", and fills your news feed with AI-generated garbage the "author" never read. Meanwhile, the services you rely on to do your job every day are rapidly approaching a single 9 of uptime.

Enough of this AI-pilled nonsense.

It's time for a different voice. A human voice. One that believes good engineering still matters because it's never been just about the code. Understanding the business problem, good architecture, high quality — all of these matter now more than ever. And they're the best leverage points humans have to steer agents towards better outcomes.

AI is our tool, not our messiah.