Ali
Posted on Jun 10
• Originally published at aelm.dev on Jun 10
It comes up in every dev conversation now, somewhere between the second coffee and the standup. A junior asks it sincerely. A senior asks it as a joke that lands a little too flat. Someone screenshots an agent building in twenty minutes what took their team a sprint, and the group chat goes: are we cooked?
I've given the reassuring answer at meetups and the doomer answer at 2am, and I no longer believe either. Here's the answer I actually believe, and it requires splitting the question in two — because "we" was never one group, and "cooked" was never one thing.
