AI assisted development

A first version exists in minutes, so the conversation happens over working code instead of a whiteboard. Reviewing it still takes exactly as long as it takes.

Work that used to get scoped down for budget reasons stays in. The whole migration instead of a patch, every call site updated instead of the three that hurt most.

The parts that get cut when time runs short, coverage, migration notes, and comments explaining why rather than what, are cheap enough now to ship with the work instead of after it.

A model reads an unfamiliar codebase far faster than a person can, which makes audits, handovers and "why does this do that" much cheaper than they used to be.

Generated code gets checked against a running system rather than trusted because it compiles. Database migrations are tested against a copy of production before they go near it.

Architecture, naming, trade-offs and anything hard to reverse are an engineer's call. A model proposes; it does not approve its own work.