Posts with tag frontend-architecture

AI equalized the part of the job that was never the hard part — writing the code. The hard part was always knowing what to ask. That part it can't hand you, and worse, it hides the fact that you don't have it.

I wrote about the decisions I won't hand to AI. That post quietly assumed I'm the one standing at the door. On a team of ten, I'm not — and the line that lives only in my head is the first thing AI erases.

I run a nine-agent code review system in production. I still won't hand AI five decisions — not despite knowing these tools, but because I do. The ones you can't cheaply reverse stay mine: the decisions that compound.

Someone installed a bitcoin miner on my hardened VPS. That incident forced me to admit I did not want to own a server anymore — I wanted to own configuration.

Speed without reading creates technical debt. Here is exactly what I check when reviewing frontend code at data scale — and what AI keeps getting wrong.