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AI is Coding Our Apps But Killing Our Engineering
What happens when those lightning-fast AI snippets turn into the death warrant of our codebase six months from now?
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Last week, a senior developer friend of mine was venting over coffee:
We used to spend our time cleaning up junior developers’ spaghetti code. Now, we’re cleaning up AI-generated code that looks flawless on the surface but completely wrecks the system architecture.
The truth is, we are living in a massive illusion of speed. AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot have given us incredible velocity. An integration, a complex data model, or API endpoints that used to take two days to design can now be spun up in two minutes with a quick prompt. Management is thrilled, delivery times are slashed, the charts are pointing straight up, and everyone claims to be more “productive” than ever.
But nobody is asking the real question:
When does this unchecked velocity bill come due?
Software engineering was never just about typing syntax onto a screen to get a functional…
