Picture Dave. Not a bad developer. Six years in, reasonably curious, catches most of the things that matter. Last Tuesday, Dave asked an AI to scaffold a feature. The AI wrote 340 lines in about four minutes. The code passed review. The tests passed. The feature shipped Friday.
The following Monday, the feature had a bug. Dave opened the file and stared at it for eleven minutes before typing a question back into the chat window.
That's the episode I made. Not about Dave specifically... Dave's a composite. But if you've been on a development team in the last two years, you've met Dave. Maybe you've been Dave.
The Cost Nobody's Tracking
There's a metric your team dashboard probably doesn't have: how long does it take a developer to answer a question about code they shipped?
