The hidden cost of AI-assisted coding is not bad code. It is losing the ability to explain your own system. Here is a lightweight workflow that keeps the speed without surrendering understanding.

Last month, an AI coding agent handed me a beautiful fix. Five lines. Elegant. It reused an existing...

The hidden cost of AI-assisted coding is not bad code. It is losing the ability to explain your own system. Here is a lightweight workflow that keeps the speed without…

Those numbers are a place to start, but they don’t capture the full picture of where engineering time is going.