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On AI, Labor, and the End of the Moat

Adoption went up. AI-authored code went up. Gains flatlined. The bottleneck was never the tools.

We're writing more code than ever. We're also duplicating more, refactoring less, and quietly degrading the thing we're building.

AI didn't reduce the demand on your best engineers. It redirected it. 6.5% more code reviewed. 19% less original work.

The experience gap in AI-assisted coding isn't a bug in the tools. It's a feature of expertise itself.

Every AI productivity study is a photograph of a river. By the time you develop the film, the water has moved.

I've had more names on the internet than I've had prescription strengths. That era is over.