The value of an engineer's writing was never the prose. It's the scar tissue.
The machine can write a beautiful paragraph about caching. It wasn't there for the decisions that aged badly on us, or for what it took to walk them back.
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An engineer who started writing: what AI shifted in my job
Writing was never my job. I build things. But AI nudged me to put words down, and that small shift says a lot about what’s changing for…