by Ted Elliott
opinionJun 29, 20267 mins
In the late 1960s, elite Navy pilots began losing dogfights.
The deep, instrument-level understanding of exactly where they were, what their aircraft was doing, and what was coming next had been automated. And when moments of crisis arrived, they didn’t have the situational awareness to respond. Put a plane on autopilot long enough, and the pilot stops actually flying.
The same dynamic is playing out across enterprise software. AI is generating code faster than developers can understand it, and leaders are celebrating the velocity without asking who’s actually flying the plane.
