You can prompt an agent for three hours and ship a 25,000-line pull request. Nobody on your team can tell you why it works — or why it breaks at 2 AM.
The New Workflow
It's 2026. You're the senior engineer on a mid-size product team. Your job has always been the person who catches the architecture mistakes before they compound — the one who notices that a Kafka dependency was grafted onto a read-heavy query, or that someone denormalized the database because it was faster than fixing the ORM.
This morning, you open your inbox. There are seven pull requests.
The first one is 24,506 lines added, 3,938 removed, with a description that reads: "Implemented user analytics pipeline with event streaming." You pull the branch. It runs. The tests pass. When you ask the author where the data flows, they send you a link to a Claude conversation.
