AI has changed how we code. How we learn. How we set-up our environments. I’m exploring the new landscape, and so far I’m liking it a lot.

I’ve noticed I deviate from the original task. Taking on tangents. I do it all the time.

For example, starting this very blog. I want it to be versioned with git, of course. Which hosting provider do I want to use? Ask agent to investigate self-hosting solutions. Setup a promising one in my home-server. Reverse proxy rule for nginx. New DNS rules on CloudFlare. SSL? Lets ask Claude to do it as well. What about a CI/CD pipeline, to deploy the blog? Done in 15 minutes. Overall it took 2h to setup.

Companies are pushing AI everywhere.

Into departments: product, design, tech, customer service, ops, fraud detection….

Into they organization processess. How teams interact with each other. How people interact with each other.

Now everything it’s all AI-mediated.

Voxium, writes on twitter (highlight is mine):

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

I’m seeing a shift on how companies work nowadays.

5 years ago, Qonto was using the Toyota Management System, which is people-centered, with continuous improvement in their processes. Finished working products were valued. We had project-planning phases, where it was decided what to build, why, and at what cost. We were doing things right the first time. We were focusing in one project at a time, until completion. We were keeping technical scalability down. We took the time.