You Can't Prompt Your Way to Judgment (Dr. Claire Knight)

💯 You Can’t Prompt Your Way to Judgment by Dr. Claire Knight is a good one! A few nuggets of wisdom from the post:

But most of the software world isn’t Stripe. Some companies still have six-month release cycles. Some are still in the middle of their cloud migration. Panic-adopting AI in those environments doesn’t produce 4x productivity. It produces faster slop.

AI amplifies your existing engineering culture.

Experience debt is what accumulates when you’ve never been through a catastrophic release, never owned a 3am system failure, never made an architectural decision that seemed brilliant and then cost you eighteen months of pain to undo. It’s the absence of pattern recognition that only comes from proximity to failure."

Knowing what to enforce, what to leave flexible, what will break under load and what won’t. You cannot build that from a standing start. It accumulates through years of getting it wrong."