There is a pattern starting to show up everywhere now.
A team uses an AI coding agent. The agent moves fast. It writes code, rewrites tests, updates docs, creates abstractions, touches config, patches runtime behavior, and explains itself confidently.
Then the team starts noticing the uncomfortable part.
The code is not always “wrong” in the obvious way. It may compile. It may pass tests. It may satisfy a review checklist. It may even look cleaner than what was there before.
But something in the system has shifted.
