Last month I opened a file I had built the week before and could not explain why it worked.
It was mine. My project, my repo, my name on the commits. I had shipped it, it passed, it went out.
And sitting there rereading it, I realized I had never actually understood it. I had steered it. The agent wrote it, I nudged, it worked, I moved on.
A week later it was a stranger's code with my name on it.
If you build with AI, you have had this moment. You shipped something fast, it worked, everyone was happy. Then a few days later you open it to change one thing and you are reading it for the first time. Your own system, and you are a tourist in it.
