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Develop Yourself · Monday · 17 min

The WORST AI Career Path: Meat Proxy

I'm opening 12 spots for a weekend workshop in October for devs who want to ship quality software with agents. Sign up here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U "You're absolutely right, I should have caught that" I'm one of the top 10% of AI users in a 1,000-person engineering org this year. I'm not an AI hater, I ship with these tools daily and I think they're genuinely fun to use. But I've also watched "customers don't care about the code" turn into an excuse for engineers to stop thinking entirely, and that's how you end up with 5,000 lines nobody can explain, a catastrophic bug in prod, and Claude cheerfully saying on the way down. Let's explore ways to maintain quality software without becoming a "meat proxy"

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I'm opening 12 spots for a weekend workshop in October for devs who want to ship quality software with agents.

Sign up here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U

"You're absolutely right, I should have caught that"

I'm one of the top 10% of AI users in a 1,000-person engineering org this year. I'm not an AI hater, I ship with these tools daily and I think they're genuinely fun to use. But I've also watched "customers don't care about the code" turn into an excuse for engineers to stop thinking entirely, and that's how you end up with 5,000 lines nobody can explain, a catastrophic bug in prod, and Claude cheerfully saying on the way down.

Let's explore ways to maintain quality software without becoming a "meat proxy"


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