The more senior you get, the higher your bar for 'good enough' quietly climbs, until it lands on flawless. But nobody asked for flawless. They asked for something that works.
Why overextended expats buy luxury status symbols and dying companies sign nine-figure software contracts. An exploration of the same broken architecture playing out at human scale and corporate scale.
AI can write the code, the tests, and the commit message. It can't tell you your font is exhausting the reader you forgot to picture. Knowing who the work is good for was always the job, and it still is.
An architectural critique of herd mentality and local hubris. Tracking how the cultural stigma of 'ready-made' assets mutates from empty 90s internet cafes and stripped Mercedes sensors straight into insecure 'custom' codebases and modern AI chatbot loops.
It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.
How I went from breaking PCs as a kid to engineering Developer Experience, and the father who lit the spark but never got to see where it led.
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