The cognitive bottleneck: rethinking velocity for AI-assisted development

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<h2> The Numbers Don't Lie </h2> <p>The AI Engineering Report 2026 analyzed telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams. The headline metrics look impressive:

<p>Most developers spent 2023 and 2024 experimenting with AI-assisted code completion and chat interfaces. Those tools were useful—but they were also passive. You typed a prompt.

<h1> AI won't save a product that was never composable </h1> <p>Most product teams shipping AI right now are following roughly the same playbook. A chat sidebar. A summariser. A

<h2> The Asymmetry of Change: Why Your Tests Are Looking the Wrong Way </h2> <p>A passing build is often treated as a certificate of correctness. In reality, it's a narrow

<h2> Cursor and Windsurf are not AI coding tools. They're slot machines wrapped in a dark theme. Both exploits Claude Opus 4.7's broken tokenizer—which silently inflates your

<p>As I mentioned in <a href="https://dev.to/dvddpl/no-time-to-code-ai-as-leverage-for-engineering-leadership-274i">my previous post about engineering leadership and AI</a>, I'm

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