Gergely Orosz(@GergelyOrosz):Yes this is all happening. But to put a positive spin on all of this: There Will Be More Cleanup Work and Guess Who Will Do It? (No, AI will not do this kind of cleanup - though there will be startups promising their AI will do this but they won’t do it as well as xp’d devs)

2026.07.02 23:27

Yes this is all happening. But to put a positive spin on all of this: There Will Be More Cleanup Work and Guess Who Will Do It? (No, AI will not do this kind of cleanup - though there will be startups promising their AI will do this but they won’t do it as well as xp’d devs)

Karthik Hariharan@hkarthik

2026.07.02 22:46

We are just now starting to see the repercussions of product teams in Big Tech aggressively deleting oversight processes to accelerate AI Native teams. Reliability is down because we are skipping technical design reviews. Designs look weird because engineers and product managers are skipping UX design reviews. Product quality and bugs are up because we are skipping ship reviews. The same leaders that pushed for all this crap are oddly silent.

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